[tex-hyphen] Changes in collection-lang*

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> Just to make things really clear, Uyghur [the language] now uses
> Arabic [the script], and uniquely allows hyphenation, contrary to all
> the other languages using Arabic as a writing system.

That is the new, Chinese-imposed, orthography which is essentially a
one-to-one mapping of the Latin-based orthography (that didn't gain much
popularity), including the hyphens. The original Arabic-based
orthography adopted by the Uyghur people didn't has such feature.

Interestingly, in pre- and early Islamic manuscripts, words were cut
whenever the line ends, even between joined letter; they would just
resume the word on next line while retaining the letter form.

Regards,
Khaled