[luatex] Hyphenation in plain TeX

[Vladimir Lomov]

Hi Mojca.
** Mojca Miklavec [2010-10-08 10:54:42 +0200]:

> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:49, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
>> ** Khaled Hosny [2010-10-08 10:21:17 +0200]:
>>
>>> The \uccode/\lccode is not set for anything but ASCII (or whatever TeX
>>> engine internally have), XeTeX sets it for the entire Unicode charset
>>> in the format, but we don't yet for LuaTeX, so any hyphenation requiring
>>> characters outside ASCII will not work out of box (or at least this is
>>> my understanding).
>> AFAIK, ASCII is 7-bit encoding so neither German nor French don't fir
>> into ASCII.
> 
> Sure, but in German or French it's only "every tenth" letter that is
> problematic, so TeX will still hyphenate somewhere using the remaining
> nine ascii ones. It will definitely miss many allowed hyphenations,
> but it will still look OK. While in Russian it is every single letter
> that lacks lccode setting, so you won't get any hyphenation at all
> unless you set those codes.
Yeh, seems I get it. I'll try to check how some French or German  words
are hyphenated but I think you're right. So know I need the whole
\lccode lines (I read you other message). Ok, I'll try and report about
results.

---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov


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