Bizarre keyboard issue only in Apple Mail

The weirdest thing has started happening when I'm typing an email in Mail. Every time I use an apostrophe, the keyboard does one of two things, depending on the letter after the apostrophe. For example:
That’sthe way - when I type an apostrophe before the letter 's' it doesn't put in a space following the s
I’da good idea - same as with the 's' it doesn't put in a space forlowing the d
I won’texpress - it doesn't put in a space following the t
I’vno moneye - when I type an apostrophe before the letter 'v' it backspaces and doesn't put in another space so that the 'e' appears at the end of the next word
We’rnot surprisede - it backspaces
This behaviour only happens when I'm using mail. There are no issues typing in any other program. I've started and restarted mail and deleted the plist file but it makes no difference.
I work for myself and use mail a lot so this is driving me absolutely insane. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
WG

Hi Eric
Thanks so much!!! Smart quotes weren't enabled when I opened an email to turn them off. So I turned them on, and then off again and - hey presto!! You have saved my sanity.
cheers
WG

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