Hi Peter
I recently posted a Perl script to the xetex mailing list that should perform the conversion to utf-8 correctly. I would be happy to modify the script to make the output more useful to Context users, but I don't use Context myself. Feedback is welcome.
i leave that to the ones using greek ... we only need the conversion rules; adding them to the relevant section of ctxtools is then no bug deal
The essential problem with the patterns shipped with Context is that it is the result of a simple conversion, but the hyphenation rules in Greek are based on the definition of vowels and consonants, which changes in utf-8. The original 8-bit patterns of Dimitrios Filippou depend on the fact that in the Babel encoding accents come before the vowel (except for iota subscript), whereas in Unicode they are either combined with the vowel or come after it, depending on whether you use precomposed characters or not.
hm, so those original patterns were latex dependent ... even more reason to ship patterns with context; of course bugs need to be fixed, (or if i uderstand, extended with the additional combinations) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------