Help in Vi Editor

How to type left single quote & right single quote in VI editor ?

I have them on my keyboard, `above tab and above /' unless you want more slant, and then I use the accent/aigu/acute/grave � that I get from a C program to print all 256 iso8859-1, and X paste. I have to wiki to get the names right, last took french in 1967. French orthography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

will try & say whether it works or not...