> This means that you *will* get the right hyphenation patterns if you > input them with ^^ab^^cd, even if 0xABCD represents a valid Japanese > character. I have just tried it out.
So you want to read “šč” in UTF-8 and output the 8 bytes values
“^^b2^^a3” in ASCII, in order for pTeX to reinterpret them as 8-bit
character codes? Will that even work?
Arthur
