See http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?pid=15524

At first glance it looks to me like album.py:_parse_release() needs a call just after line 95 like

# Convert Unicode punctuation
if self.config.setting['convert_punctuation']:
    m.apply_func(asciipunct)

There is the wider issue of the weird behaviour you get due to some things reading metadata from the album object, but some from the track object, but that may be a separate ticket...