Does protrusion in pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX work as it should?

\documentclass[11pt]{article} 
\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true,final]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\section*{The Microtypesetting}
\noindent
A run of the mill paragraph with some text that goes blah blah blah etc.
\noindent
\textquoteleft
Wow! What a beauty!\textquoteright 
\end{document}

but \textquoteleft does not protrude well enough outside the box as en visaged here. I use TeX Live 2013 so it is not very old...should I try TeX Live 2014?