[XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

[Zdenek Wagner]

so 9. 9. 2023 v 23:28 odesílatel Mike Maxwell <mmaxwell at umd.edu> napsal:
>
> On 9/9/2023 4:20 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> > Am Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:39:51 -0400 schrieb Mike Maxwell:
> >
> >> I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran
> >> Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper instead of the
> >> default(?) shaper, it might work for Burmese.
> >
> > Yes that should work fine, luahbtex is the default engine for
> > lualatex since tl 2020 and harfbuzz can be used with latex +
> > fontspec by using the option Renderer=Harfbuzz
> >
> > see e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/515934/2388
>
> Thank you, that is good news!
>
> At this point, what are the advantages of Xe(La)TeX vs. Lua(La)TeX?
> Apart from the crash Andrew reported, and the staleness of XeTeX's
> development.  Or maybe putting it differently, are there any situations
> that require XeTeX?
>
According to documentation it seems to me that ucharclasses work only
with XeLaTeX. If I use longer texts, I prefer polyglossia because I
need hyphenation. However, if I just want to insert single words, it
is simpler with ucharclasses.

>     Mike Maxwell
>

Zdeněk Wagner
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