For my taste, the apostrophe in “you’re” is not confusing because quotations can usually only end on word boundaries.
I think (though not confidently) that any attempt to introduce specific semantics to double vs. single quotes is doomed, though. Such conventions probably won’t reach enough adoption that you’ll be able to depend on people adhering to or understanding them.
(My convention is that double quotes and single quotes mean the same thing, and you should generally make separately clear if you’re not literally quoting someone. I mostly only use single quotes for nesting inside double quotes, although the thing I said above about quote marks only occurring on word boundaries make this a redundant clarification.)
For my taste, the apostrophe in “you’re” is not confusing because quotations can usually only end on word boundaries.
I think (though not confidently) that any attempt to introduce specific semantics to double vs. single quotes is doomed, though. Such conventions probably won’t reach enough adoption that you’ll be able to depend on people adhering to or understanding them.
(My convention is that double quotes and single quotes mean the same thing, and you should generally make separately clear if you’re not literally quoting someone. I mostly only use single quotes for nesting inside double quotes, although the thing I said above about quote marks only occurring on word boundaries make this a redundant clarification.)