[tex-hyphen] Newest GitHub additions into CTAN?

[Stojan Trajanovski]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 06:13, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> > If we really do need to support 8-bit encodings, I would keep the
> > original UTF-8 patterns intact and just remove the incompatible
> > patterns from the 8-bit version.
>
> This sounds like the way to go.  Given that LaTeX's default input
> encoding today is UTF-8 and most fonts supported by TeX are using
> Unicode output encoding also, I see no reason to not make Unicode the
> default for Macedonian patterns.
>

I agree with you: the 6 incompatible hyphen patterns (i.e. those containing
the 2 non-existing t2a letters) can be removed, thus Unicode can be made
default for Macedonian patterns. I guess loadhyph will look similar as it
is now for Bulgarian:
https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/blob/master/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-bg.tex


>
> > But that 8-bit version needs to be done from scratch (using the
> > existing scripts).
>
> Stojan, is an 8bit version really needed?
>

Not as a dedicated one i.e. it can be done as you proposed.


>
>     Werner
>
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