I struggled a few hours today performing a REST query from the IE address bar. I copied the URL from some source to One Note, and changed it a bit. I pasted it back into IE, and just couldn't get it to work.
Eventually, after much pain and suffering, I typed a single quote next to the existing one in notepad to try escaping some text, and noticed a subtle difference between the quotes. See if you can spot it: ‘ ’ ' While these three characters look similar to you and me, they are in fact very different to text parsers.
My guess is that at some point it must have been inserted by the auto correct feature of a helpful Microsoft Office application. A little further digging exposed that there is a way to turn off the "insert smart quotes" feature in Office applications, explained here.
There are more info available about smart quotes here. A particularly handy tip, is that you can undo the smart quote conversion by pressing ctrl-z immediately after typing the quote character.
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