[tex-hyphen] right/left hyphenmin

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "VV" == Vladimir Volovich writes:
>
>  VV> it looks like a bug in xetex: it should not set lccode for the
>  VV> guillemets, but it does. moreover it also sets the uccode for them
>  VV> pointing to control codes:
>
> it seems it's not an xeex bug per se, but caused by default lc/uccode
> settings in latex (which are tuned for T1 encoding, and are not
> applicable to unicode encoding).
>
> thus, the bug is that xelatex.ini does not correct the lc/uccode values
> for characters in the range 128-255.

Thanks a lot for pointing it out.

I took a look at unicode-letters, and the entry for guilements was not
present there.

Jonathan?
(And what about LuaTeX then?)

On maybe any chance to fix this in LaTeX (based on the ability of
engine to recognise UTF-8?)

Mojca

PS: Dimitrios, guilemets might be removed from the patterns if this is
fixed. Here is a derived version of patterns that will be used in TeX
Live in XeTeX:
      http://www.tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/
so you may check if they are/will be OK