Re: [Groff] Hyphenation with Russian

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Is there a way to make nroff process Russian documents correctly and
> with hyphenation?

Yes.

  . Select an 8-bit encoding you want to use for the Russian
    hyphenation.  Only characters in the ranges 0x20-0x7e and
    0xa0-0xfe can be used.  Convert your hyphenation patterns to this
    encoding; expanding all macros.  Use `hyphen.cs' as a template.

  . Set up a mapping from groff input characters (and implicitly vice
    versa) to this Russian encoding.  Use `latin2.tmac' as a template.

  . Write a language support file which defines a hyphenation
    language, activates the characters used for the hyphenation
    patterns, and loads them.  Use `cs.tmac' as a template.

That's it!  For, say, UTF-8 encoded Russian input files use groff's -k
option to use the new `preconv' preprocessor.


    Werner