Re: FOR-RELEASE: What about updating the britisch, american and other present hyphention patterns?

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:27:25 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID	<20260125082725.luwdbdxvmttl3kat@illithid>

At 2026-01-25T00:29:40+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>   From bug #61919:
> 
>   "Hyphenation patterns need to be updated with each release;
> put that in the file "FOR-RELEASE"."
> 
>   See also bug #60934.

1.  How about you go see which ones have been updated since the last
    groff release?

2.  If a TeX hyphenation pattern has been updated to use UTF-8 encoding,
    we have difficulty incorporating it because internally, GNU troff's
    hyphenation system presumes an 8-bit character encoding.

    This is one of many aspects of the code that must be reimplemented
    for groff to use a wider character type internally.

    See bug #40720.

Regards,
Branden

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