Stupify smart quotes for a poor organist?

I’m trying to use the normal “tick” apostrophe for a very specific use case, where organists see what foot stop they should use. having Dorico do automatic “smart” (curly) apostrophes and quotes are great for 98% of my scores, but in this one case, I desperately need the tick marks. How do I accomplish this? For Windows 11.

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Uncheck this option in Engraving Options > Text assuming the stop information is Text.

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You could also explicitly insert the Prime (U+2032) character, rather than the straight apostrophe, which is arguably more correct.

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Rather than:

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In Dorico, in Staff Text, you can get this character by typing 2032 and then typing Alt/Opt+X.

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This I don’t want to do, because there are quotes throughout that I do need to be “smart”!

Prime is the correct symbol for ‘foot’, so it should be used, not an apostrophe character. Dorico now fully supports Unicode so it is not a problem.