[luatex] hyphenating ancient Greek

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 07:16:48PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> Patrick Gundlach <patrick at gundla.ch> wrote:
> 
> > ... to set lccode for every greek letter (as far as understand it, but someone else should confirm).
> > 
> > Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 29--29
> > [][] \EU2/cmr/m/n/12 χα-λε-πὰ
> > 
> > ... whishing that this could be done at the engine level....
> 
> what?  setting uc/lccode tables?  that would require a further primitive
> to specify the language (and probably also writing scheme -- i'm not
> enough of a linguist to know), since the meanings and relations of
> glyphs differ in some languages.
> 
> type example:
> 
> in english, the uccode of i gives you I
> in turkish, the uccode of i gives you \.I
>        (and the lccode of I gives you \i)

Unicode have uppercase/lowe case matching some where in its data, so we
could just follow whatever unicode suggests.

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 Khaled Hosny
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