On 1/27/19 11:08 AM, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
It is a letter. In “can’t” the apostrophe isn’t a letter. It’s a mark of elision. I can double-click on the three words in this paragraph which have the apostrophe in them, and they are all whole-word selected.
That doesn't work when I try it: I double-click on the "a" in "can’t" and get only the "can" selected.
This does not necessarily prove anything; my software (Thunderbird) is arguably doing it wrong.
~mark