5 Sep
2010
5 Sep
'10
3:10 p.m.
Since we are using different hyphenation patterns anyway
Not really, apart for German, for which patterns are being actively updated and tested. For most of the other languages we still use patterns that are sometimes several decades old, and not really maintained by anyone. The only difference between UTF-8 TeX engines and 8-bit engines is that for the latter ones, the patterns are converted to an appropriate 8-bit encoding on the fly, with the additional difference that LuaTeX can load patterns on demand during each run, but it still uses the same patterns. Arthur