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+from nose.tools import eq_, assert_almost_equal
+from wordfreq import tokenize, word_frequency
+
+
+def test_apostrophes():
+    for lang in ('fr', 'ca', 'oc'):
+        eq_(tokenize("langues d'oïl", lang),
+            ['langues', "d", 'oïl'])
+        eq_(tokenize("langues d'oïl", lang, include_punctuation=True),
+            ['langues', "d'", 'oïl'])
+        eq_(tokenize("l'heure", lang),
+            ['l', 'heure'])
+        eq_(tokenize("l'heure", lang, include_punctuation=True),
+            ["l'", 'heure'])
+        eq_(tokenize("L'Hôpital", lang, include_punctuation=True),
+            ["l'", 'hôpital'])
+        eq_(tokenize("This isn't French", lang),
+            ['this', "isn't", 'french'])
+