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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I work for a religious organization that produces publications in several languages spoken by our members throughout the world. Over the years, we have developed UTF-8 encoded hyphenated word lists for 91 different languages. We use these
word lists to create proprietary hyphenation software. We would like to use these lists to create hyphenation pattern files that can be used with more traditional software such as TeX and OpenOffice applications.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It appears that hyphenation pattern files are being created by patgen using tokenized word lists then converting the final output to UTF-8. Unfortunately, we are dealing with some complex languages that will exceed the 256 character limit
of patgen.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Like others, I have unsuccessfully tried to build opatgen with the current version of gcc. Trying to find gcc version 2.96 in hopes that it will work doesn’t make sense, especially when there are reports that opatgen has some serious
reliability and performance issues. I applaud David Antos for his research and development of opatgen and find it fascinating that his work has not been adopted and enhanced by the open source community.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is using patgen with tokenized word lists and converting the output to UTF-8 really the only viable way to create pattern files?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Steve Dickson<br>
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<br>
Publishing Services Department<br>
50 East North Temple Street<br>
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:DicksonSK@ldschurch.org"><span style="color:blue">DicksonSK@ldschurch.org</span></a><br>
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