Another take on the English apostrophe in Unicode

[David Starner]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:38 PM Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com> wrote:

> "don’t" is a contraction of two words, it is not one word.
>

But as he points out, it's not a contraction of don and t; it is, at best,
a contraction of do and n't. It's eliding, not punctuating. In the
comments, he also brings up the examples of "Don’t you mind?" being okay
but not *"Do not you mind?", and "fo’c’sle".

> You can't use simple regular expressions to find word boundaries.

Who uses _simple_ regular expressions? You can't use any code to reliably
find word boundaries in English, and that's a problem.
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