Dear Arthur, Thank you very much for you answer. > That’s great! Is it related to the earlier effort by Robert Ermers> >(https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-hyphen/2025-June/001943.html)? No > Berik does not need to do anything---other than sending us the pattern> > file---however I am not aware of any LaTeX 8-bit encoding that supports > Kazakh, so that unless there is a pressing need to use it with pdfTeX > we’ll make it a UTF-8-only language
I'd like to test my patterns with pdflatex. How can I use conv-utf8-t2a.tex?Can you give me instructions for it?I'm sufficiently familiar with LaTeX: https://ctan.org/author/tuleuovI've also created Kazakh style file for babelMy patterns work with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX by polyglossia Best regards, Beri Tuleuov On Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 02:50:55 AM GMT+5, Arthur Rosendahl <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Karl, Berik, and all, On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 09:33:20AM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Arthur, Mojca, and all. Berik Tuleuov, cc'd, has created patterns for > the Kazakh language, using UTF-8. That’s great! Is it related to the earlier effort by Robert Ermers (https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-hyphen/2025-June/001943.html)? > 1) can hyph-utf8 automatically generate the 8-bit versions for pdf(la)tex, > or does he need to do this? Berik does not need to do anything---other than sending us the pattern file---however I am not aware of any LaTeX 8-bit encoding that supports Kazakh, so that unless there is a pressing need to use it with pdfTeX we’ll make it a UTF-8-only language. > 2) how best to integrate the new patterns into hyph-utf8? Should Berik > upload his work to CTAN as a separate package, and you'll take it from > there, or do you prefer to just take it from elsewhere? Or what? Please just send the patterns you have, we’ll take it from there. > BTW, it would be nice if the README, or something, described the process > you prefer for new patterns. Or maybe it's already there and I missed it. There is in the top-level README.md (“just contact us”). We don’t have any preference. The README on CTAN dates from the very beginnings of hyph-utf8 and I’ve been meaning to update it for quite a while. Best, Arthur
