On the_title and apostrophe vs single right quotation mark html entities

Hi there,

I’ve got a question on some of the titles returned by the_title() in my wordpress blog. Let’s say the title of my post is:

G’day

…with the apostrophe separating G and day

What I get back from the_title() is:

G& #8217;day (space added between & and # to prevent browser from parsing character)

Looking at an HTML character code chart (https://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/), I find that & #8217; is the html entity for single right quotation marks, not apostrophes. Does anyone know how I can get

G’day

or

G& #39;day

returned (& #39; being the html entity for apostrophes)? If not from the_title() itself, then some other php function that encapsulates the_title()? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.