[XeTeX] [tex-hyphen] Help with UTF-8 Language

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Today, this design problem can be circumvented natively by luatex
>> only,
> 
> Does XeTeX also address this issue (open question, not one to which
> I claim to already know the answer)?

I think XeTeX doesn't offer this level of manipulation.  However, I
don't know how much it has inherited from Omega.

> OK, so let's open up the question from just Khmer: if I were to
> want to build patterns for a language that had more than 243
> characters, is there a variant of Patgen that can correctly handle
> such a task?

`opatgen' should be able to do that.  Unfortunately, it's not
maintained, and its C++ code is not compilable with today's compilers.
I guess that an experienced C++ programmer can fix this rather easily.
As usual, we need to find such a person who has time and interest to
do this...


    Werner