[luatex] Hyphenchar

Patrick Gundlach patrick at gundla.ch
Tue Sep 29 15:15:10 CEST 2009


Hello Arthur,

>> the unicode hyphenation character is U+2010 (HYPHEN) (correct?). But
>> LuaTeX tries to insert U+002D (HYPHEN-MINUS) when breaking a  
>> paragraph.
>
>  (I assume you mean breaking a paragraph into lines)

Yes.


>  As a matter of principle, you're right, the correct Unicode  
> character is
> U+2010 HYPHEN, but it's very poorly supported in actual fonts even  
> if that
> would be trivial, so it makes sense to use the formally ambiguous  
> HYPHEN-MINUS
> instead.  At least until HYPHEN is supported more widely.

OK, then for my applications I map the glyph from codepoint x2010 to  
x2d.

Thanks,

Patrick




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