[tex-hyphen] Using UTF-8 Word Lists to Create Hyphenation Pattern Files

[David Gardner]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:15PM +0200, Petr Sojka wrote:
> > >Is using patgen with tokenized word lists and converting the output to
> > >UTF-8 really the only viable way to create pattern files?
> It is the quickest way for most languages unless someone takes
> care of further opatgen maintenance.

I wonder if I'm missing something.... When I last used patgen I found that 
I was able to specify my accented characters (using utf8) and it "just worked".

Was I just extraordinarily fortunate in my character set?

David