On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer submitted an update to the
hyph-utf8
package.
Modern native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX need hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 format, whereas older systems require hyphenation patterns in the 8-bit encoding of the font in use (such encodings are codified in the LaTeX scheme with names like OT1, T2A, TS1, OML, LY1, etc).
The present package offers a collection of conversions of existing patterns to UTF-8 format, together with converters for use with 8-bit fonts in older systems. Since hyphenation patterns for TeX are only read at iniTeX time, it is hoped that the UTF-8 patterns, with their converters, will completely supplant the older patterns.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/ Summary description: UTF-8 hyphenation patterns License type: other-free
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Synchronize changes from dehyph-exptl v0.20: - improvements in hyph-de-1901.tex, hyph-de-1996.tex - added Swiss-German patterns with traditional ortography
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf