Re: hyphenation and umlauts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:07 PM 9/14/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:04:17 +0200
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> > At 08:50 PM 9/11/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> >
> > >Ahoi,
> > >
> > >I have the problem to declare a hyphenation of the german word
> > >"Kriegsgeschädigte".
> > >
> > >In a posting from Hans i found something that lets me try
> > >\hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\aumlaut-dig-te}
> > >
> > >But this runs in an error: "Wrong hyphenation..."
> > >
> > >What is the correct way?
> >
> > [ i assume that you use an 8 bit encoding ]
>
>yes, i use il1
>
> > the aumlaut is not an 8 bit char, bit a composed character, where the " is
> > lower than normal, instead use:
> >
> > \adiaeresis
>
>Thanks, but
>\hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\adiaeresis-dig-te}
>
>gives
>! Improper \hyphenation will be flushed.
>\dobuildtextaccent #1#2->{
>                           \let \char \normalaccent #1\let \char 
> \normalchar #2}
>l.5 \hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\adiaeresis
>                                          -dig-te}
>?
>
>Any hints?

hm, so it looks like you're in default encoding, not in 8 bit; how about

\setupbodyfont[ppl,10pt]
\hyphenation{...}

or maybe

\setupencoding[ec]
\hyphenation{...}

Hans
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