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From: Uwe Koloska <koloska@voiceinterconnect.de>
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Subject: Re: hyphenation of words with accented characters
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Marko Schütz schrieb:
> 
> \hyphenation{Äqui-va-lenz-re-la-tion}
> 
> as well as 
> 
> \hyphenation{"Aqui-va-lenz-re-la-tion}
> 
> with both I get 
> 
> ! Improper \hyphenation will be flushed.
> \handlecompoundcharacter #1->\def 
>                                   \xhandlecompoundcharacter {\dohandlecompou...
> l.3 \hyphenation{"
>                   Aqui-va-lenz-re-la-tion}

\hyphenation can only handle single characters and not compound 
ones.  So you have to switch to an input encoding that doesn't 
touch umlauts or other non-ASCII chars.  If it works TeX has to 
handle this characters as follows:
   1. let 'Ä' untouched
   2. use the latin1 to TeX (or type1 or ...) output encoding to
      print the char to output.

Unfortunately I tried this myself and didn't had any success. 
It seems that all input encodings in context change non-ASCII 
chars to compound characters.

Sorry, seems this is more confusing than helpful ;-(
Uwe

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