All, German orthography is a mess right now, we now have two sets of rules, old and new. New hyphenation is ugly and rules are constantly changing. I see that ConTeXt has lang-deo.pat, so I was hoping that this would produce "old" patterns, but it doesn't seem to work: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[deo] \starttext \showhyphens{gestorben} \showhyphens{Bierdeckel} \showhyphens{äußerst} \stoptext gives me: Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] \*10ptrmtf* ge-stor-ben Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] \*10ptrmtf* Bier-de-ckel Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 12--12 [] \*10ptrmtf* ‰u-ˇerst which is identical to \mainlanguage[de]. Patterns should be Bierdek- kel and ‰us-serst. Am I missing something, how can I enable "old" patterns? Thanks Thomas