[tex-hyphen] german hyphenation patterns

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I would suggest to put the files to the tug repository.

Please do so.

> Not because I would be a fan of either revision control system, but
> it would be much easier to maintain sources of patterns from a
> single repository, and whenever you happen to add new words or
> regenerate the files, you can submit the proper version of Unicode
> patterns directly to the right place.

Hmm.

> You already have plenty of perl scripts, so one more to do the
> conversion to UTF-8 after generating the patterns next time would
> simplify the work *a lot* :)

Well, since the input data is (necessarily) latin1, the output is
latin1 too.  Converting to Unicode is a simple call to iconv followed
by a short call to sed to replace the Emacs coding tag.


    Werner