Hi Peter
> I recently posted a Perl script to the xetex mailing list that should
> perform the conversion to utf-8 correctly. I would be happy to modify
> the script to make the output more useful to Context users, but I don't
> use Context myself. Feedback is welcome.
>
i leave that to the ones using greek ... we only need the conversion
rules; adding them to the relevant section of ctxtools is then no bug deal
> The essential problem with the patterns shipped with Context is that it
> is the result of a simple conversion, but the hyphenation rules in Greek
> are based on the definition of vowels and consonants, which changes in
> utf-8. The original 8-bit patterns of Dimitrios Filippou depend on the
> fact that in the Babel encoding accents come before the vowel (except
> for iota subscript), whereas in Unicode they are either combined with
> the vowel or come after it, depending on whether you use precomposed
> characters or not.
>
>
hm, so those original patterns were latex dependent ... even more reason
to ship patterns with context; of course bugs need to be fixed, (or if i
uderstand, extended with the additional combinations)
Hans
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