[tex-hyphen] Adding support for Hebrew (UNIV: XeTeX, NOT XeLaTeX)

[Philip Taylor]

Philip Taylor wrote:

> Trying to add support for Hebrew to TeX Live 2016, ...

I also note that other ?errors? in hyph-he.tex are preventing PdfTeX/eplain from being built :

> (c:/TeX/Live/texmf-local/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/hyph-he.tex
> ! Nonletter.
> l.2 ×
>      1
> ? 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.2 ×
>      1
> No pages of output.

Why, I wonder, is PdfTeX/eplain even /trying/ to load a patterns file expressed in utf-8 ?  My loadhyph-he.tex (which should prevent this) attached.

Philip Taylor
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