[luatex] Hyphenation in plain TeX

[Arthur Reutenauer]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 01:20:48PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 8 October 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:59:45PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>> Now imagine user C is writing in Vietnamese.  There are no patterns
>>> for Vietnamese, but \uccode/\lccode values have to be set somewhere.
>>
>> And how bad is that?
>
> The absence of hyphenation patterns?  They are not needed because
> words are very short.  And since words consist of single syllables,
> there are no reasonable breakpoints.

  Sure enough, but you didn't answer Khaled's question: how bad is not
having \uccode and \lccode then?

	Arthur