[tex-hyphen] tamil and malayalam

[Hans Hagen]

On 16-3-2010 22:17, Karl Berry wrote:
>      TeX distributions like MikTeX
>      and TeX Live can decide whether the patterns for non-Western languages
>      that are only usable with xetex or luatex should be commented out by
>      default or not.
>
> I wish we weren't going down this road of non-universally-usable
> patterns at all, but maybe there's no good alternative.

we shouldn't .. any macro package can load utf patterns and remap 'm to 
some internal encoding ... just discard pattern files that don't come in 
utf

Hans

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