[Dev-luatex] luatex and hyphenation patterns

[Taco Hoekwater]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> One user of Debian wanted to build a luatex based latex format (he
> wanted to test some examples from the luatex.org documentation slides,
> using the old \lua{...} code, anyway).
> 
> Unfortunaltely this will not work in any way because there are so many
> hyphenation patterns using non-ascii and non-utf8 content. All those of
> course break.
> 
> Is there any suggested way how to cope with this?

It should be possible to use the (UTF-8) pattern files from xelatex,
but I don't know how those are packaged.

Best wishes,
Taco