[XeTeX] polyglossia on svn repo

[Jonathan Kew]

On 1 Feb 2008, at 12:19 pm, Yves Codet wrote:

> Bonjour François,
>
> Many thanks for the fix, and for the Sanskrit module. The attached  
> version of my test file now works fine. I think I'll upload a  
> modified version of sanhyph.tex when Polyglossia is ready to be  
> publically released.
>
>>> - There is an unwanted digit 1 at the beginning of the Sanskrit  
>>> text.
>> I can't reproduce that.
>
> It has now disappeared.
>
> Incidentally, and this is rather a question for Jonathan, there is  
> a lot of \lccode commands at the beginning of sanhyph.tex which  
> were necessary when I wrote it:
>
> % Set \lccode for combining marks.
> % Devanagari
> \global\lccode"0901="0901
> \global\lccode"0902="0902

...etc.

These should be unnecessary, I believe, as unicode-letters.tex  
(loaded by xetex.ini and xelatex.ini as part of the formats) includes  
appropriate defaults based on the Unicode character categories.

(See texmf/tex/generic/xetex/unicode-letters.tex in the XeTeX svn  
repository.)

JK