[XeTeX] (lack of ) hyphenation and overfull box

[Cyril Niklaus]

On 11 mai 07, at 01:00, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 10 May 2007, at 4:32 pm, Cyril Niklaus wrote:
>>
>> It would seem that the apostrophe is troubling the software. What
>> can  be done, besides indicating by hand the break points?
>
> It looks like the French patterns aren't aware of the Unicode
> apostrophe. You could work around this by assigning
>
>    \lccode"2019="0027
>
> so that it is treated the same as the old ASCII apostrophe for
> hyphenation.
>
> Ideally, the {francais} option would set this up, I guess, but Babel
> isn't aware of XeTeX and Unicode.

Indeed it seems to be the case, as one can see in other threads.
Assigning the lccode does help though, and it is no longer necessary  
to slice the words with \- by hand.
So, as always a great thank you!
Cyril