[Skirge01]

Sorry it took a while to get back to this, but thanks for the suggestions.  Sadly, I just tried all 3 and none of them worked.  If you have any other ideas, let me know.

@jjd-uk Just curious why you don't think this is an appropriate use for sort tokens?

[jjd-uk]

Because sort tokens need as delimiter to separate what you want the remove and what you want sort by, where the delimiter is usually a space or apostrophe after the sort token. However in your case the apostrophe has nothing before it so Kodi probably doesn't see it as a valid sort token or delimiter. Probably the best for these is to specify a Sort Title e.g. Twas.

[jjd-uk]

In case you aren't aware of Sort Title

Default position uses apostrophe


Go to Manage on Context Menu


Select Edit sort title


Remove apostrophe beginning


Now sorted by T however title in UI is unchanged so still displays the apostrophe. Hence Sort Title is a secondary titles used only for sorting leaving the movie title to be displayed unchanged, Can be used in all kinds for cases to force a particular sort order.


Note: if you don't want the apostrophe displayed at all then use the Edit title option to changed title displayed in the UI as well as what's used for sorting.