On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:11, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your very informative reply. If I understand correctly,
>> what you say is that it's not possible to create all-TeX rules that
>> says the following:
>>
>> (a) ignore all combining diacritics;
>> (b) respect all document-level instructions that "these {x,y,z}
>> characters should be treated as they were, say, 'a'".
>
> I think it should be doable, using \lccode's properly (see
> http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-hyphen/2010-May/000541.html and subsequent
> messages). It would need to be corefully specified, though.
(a) is not possible, but as Arthur pointed out (b) should be doable.
All other topics have been perfectly answered by Arthur.
Mojca