> Am 22.04.2020 um 11:49 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer 
> <arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org>:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 08:16:32AM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> Does that mean that indic scripts/languages are now fully supported? (Or 
>> maybe just scripts, not languages?
> 
>  Devanagari support was added a while ago.  The layout engine was
> according to reports working for at least one other Indic script
> (Bengali, I think), but not for others (Oriya?  Can’t remember).  I
> wouldn’t expect a renderer for Devanagari to do a very good job on Tamil
> or Malayalam, for example.
> 
>> Do Hindi or Urdu need hyphenation patterns?)
> 
>  Hindi uses hyphenation, Urdu doesn’t.  We have patterns for Hindi in
> TeX-Hyphen: 
> https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/tree/master/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-hi.tex

Thank you!

In scripts/context/lua/mtx-patterns.lua Hindi and several other languages are 
commented, what does that mean?

Best, Hraban
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