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It would appear pdflatex (with [frenchb,english]{babel}) does not do hyphenation of words with an apostrophe.

For example, I wrote "l'arithmétique" which was not hyphened, and the commands \showhyphens{arithmétique} \showhyphens{l'arithmétique} give ari-thmé-tique and l'arithmétique.

I read the question Hyphenation of words containing apostrophes and while very interesting, I am not inclined to define hyphenation for all words which might be used with apostrophes, especially when another hyphenation might (very, very low chance...) be used elsewhere in the document. I liked the adapted suggestion \newcommand{\?}{'\nobreak\hspace{0pt}} from egreg in the topic, but futhermore I'd like to be able to type an apostrophe to get an apostrophe...

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    I get l'arith-mé-tique; are you perhaps using \showhyphens before \begin{document}? Or perhaps you don't load \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}? – egreg Jan 02 '15 at 13:40
  • I put the showhyphens just before the occurrence of "l'arithmétique" which is not hyphened. I use 
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%% fonts
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[frenchb,english]{babel} 
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{aecompl}
    – luneart Jan 02 '15 at 13:53
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    Please add to your question a minimal example of code showing the issue. And don't load aecompl. – egreg Jan 02 '15 at 13:55
  • Hinted by your comment, I tried disabling each of those packages one by one, but with no changes. I checked having latest babel, and I'm quite lost here. – luneart Jan 02 '15 at 13:58

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If you enter \usepackage[frenchb, english]{babel} your document is considered as written mainly in (American) English. You should write \usepackage[english,frenchb]{babel} or better \usepackage[english,french]{babel} as recommended by Daniel Flipo, author of the frenchb module.

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