[luatex] hyphenation question

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 18 January 2009 Yannis Haralambous wrote:

 > NO NO NO there is no such thing as "uppercase" and "lowercase" Kana!!!
 > 
 > If you seen two different sizes (for ***some*** of the characters)  
 > this is because the smaller characters have a special function: they  
 > are vowels which will change the vowel part of a syllable. For  
 > example, you have a syllable "chi" if you add a small "a" it will  
 > become "cha" (if you add a big "a" you will have two syllables "chi-a").

Hi Yannis,
maybe I had been confused by things I found in the Unicode book:

  LATIN SMALL LETTER A 
  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A 

I assumed that 

  HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL A
  HIRAGANA LETTER A

is something similar but I always wondered why Kana have so few
'SMALL' characters.  What you said explains a lot.  Thank you very
much for the explanation.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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