Thank you, Arthur (and all others who have helped to identify the
cause). As an interim work-around, I had added :
\def ͵{\char `\͵ \penalty 10000 \relax}
\def ʹ{\penalty 10000 \char `\ʹ \relax}
which worked but which /may/ have had undesirable side-effects (none
noticed so far, but one never knows ...) but I will replace this with
zero-settling of the two \lccodes and report back.
** Phil.
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Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
No, no changes to any \lccodes or \uccodes at all, Arthur.
Understood. But as is implied in the rest of the thread, XeTeX does
that for you in the format (via unicode-letters.tex). For the time
being, just reset the character's \lccode to zero and you'll be fine.
I'll be discussing a long-term solution.
Arthur