On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 06:13, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If we really do need to support 8-bit encodings, I would keep the > > original UTF-8 patterns intact and just remove the incompatible > > patterns from the 8-bit version. > > This sounds like the way to go. Given that LaTeX's default input > encoding today is UTF-8 and most fonts supported by TeX are using > Unicode output encoding also, I see no reason to not make Unicode the > default for Macedonian patterns. >
I agree with you: the 6 incompatible hyphen patterns (i.e. those containing the 2 non-existing t2a letters) can be removed, thus Unicode can be made default for Macedonian patterns. I guess loadhyph will look similar as it is now for Bulgarian: https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/blob/master/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-bg.tex > > > But that 8-bit version needs to be done from scratch (using the > > existing scripts). > > Stojan, is an 8bit version really needed? > Not as a dedicated one i.e. it can be done as you proposed. > > Werner >
