diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
index 4c32237f14c..d0a1b86b13e 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ class Connection(_ConnectionBase):
             self._send(header)
             self._send(buf)
         else:
-            # Issue # 20540: concatenate before sending, to avoid delays due
+            # Issue #20540: concatenate before sending, to avoid delays due
             # to Nagle's algorithm on a TCP socket.
             # Also note we want to avoid sending a 0-length buffer separately,
             # to avoid "broken pipe" errors if the other end closed the pipe.
diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man
index 6dbdba9e5fe..4e1a81d2309 100644
--- a/Misc/python.man
+++ b/Misc/python.man
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ raises an exception.
 .TP
 .B \-I
 Run Python in isolated mode. This also implies \fB\-E\fP and \fB\-s\fP. In
-isolated mode sys.path contains neither the script’s directory nor the user’s
+isolated mode sys.path contains neither the script's directory nor the user's
 site-packages directory. All PYTHON* environment variables are ignored, too.
 Further restrictions may be imposed to prevent the user from injecting
 malicious code.
diff --git a/Python/marshal.c b/Python/marshal.c
index f89cd04b655..5b8de991921 100644
--- a/Python/marshal.c
+++ b/Python/marshal.c
@@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ The file must be an open file object such as sys.stdout or returned by\n\
 open() or os.popen(). It must be opened in binary mode ('wb' or 'w+b').\n\
 \n\
 If the value has (or contains an object that has) an unsupported type, a\n\
-ValueError exception is raised — but garbage data will also be written\n\
+ValueError exception is raised - but garbage data will also be written\n\
 to the file. The object will not be properly read back by load()\n\
 \n\
 The version argument indicates the data format that dump should use.");
@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(load_doc,
 "load(file)\n\
 \n\
 Read one value from the open file and return it. If no valid value is\n\
-read (e.g. because the data has a different Python version’s\n\
+read (e.g. because the data has a different Python version's\n\
 incompatible marshal format), raise EOFError, ValueError or TypeError.\n\
 The file must be an open file object opened in binary mode ('rb' or\n\
 'r+b').\n\