[XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Then some characters would have hundreds (in future thousands) of code
> pages... (I then would love Unicode.)

No, each character would have exactly one code page.

For example (and omitting any unnecessary distinctions)
the English letter "d" would be in the English code page
whilst the Vietnamese letter "d" would be in the
Vietnamese code page.  Two distinct characters, two
code pages.

** Phil.