> To clean up some mess in loading the patterns, it would be nice to go > the other way around, and start from proper Unicode (UTF-8) patterns > and let (pdf)TeX interpret UTF-8 patterns in its own way instead of > both XeTeX and LuaTeX having to deal with some really weird encodings > in patterns.
Great! Could we also try to get away from the naming mess and use standards tags for languages? The relevant document is IETF Best Current Practice 47 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) -- currently it's RFC 4646 and 4647, but it's under revision. It's already well on its way, but some tags could be modified. I can prepare the complete list of tags for languages in language.dat Arthur
