SilentGhost added the comment:
regex module is not in standard library, on the latest 3.6 branch re module
breaks on curly apostrophe just fine. Perhaps, try reporting this issue on the
bitbucket tracker?
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nosy: +SilentGhost
resolution: -> not a bug
stage: -> resolved
status: open
New submission from mohammad aghanabi:
According to [UAX #29](http://unicode.org/reports/tr29) - unicode word
boundaries (rule WB5a), an apostrophe includes U+0027 ( ' ) APOSTROPHE and
U+2019 ( ’ ) RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (curly apostrophe).
However regex module only implements U+0027 and