Re: hyphenation of words with accented characters

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:57 AM 8/29/2002 +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>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.

let's be of help then:

given that you have 8 bit characters (i.e. ec or texnansi encoded fonts)

\hyphenation   {f\oacute-r\egrave ign}
\hyphenatedword{f\oacute-r\egrave ign}

btw 1, when loading patterns, context goes through a lot of trouble to make 
sure that 8 bit patterns are handled ok; in some languages, multiple 
patterns are loaded (like il2 and ec in czech) which means that they even 
switch properly with different coding regimes

btw 2, if you think that fonts is a mess, take a look at pattern files: all 
kind of methods, naming, etc

Hans

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