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Re: hyphenating non-english characters


From: Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Subject: Re: hyphenating non-english characters
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:53:27 +0200

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 06:48:13PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> Some may find it strange that I have associated the 'ñ' with the 'p' and
> not with the 'n'.  Well, in Spanish there are cases in which the 'ñ' is
> not treated as an 'n', while some syllables can end in 'n' (e.g.
> pan-ta-lón), no syllable ends in 'ñ'.  I explain this to you so that you
> understand that you must study and deduce for yourself what you have to
> do based on the rules of your language.

This last thing I said is wrong, since there are also syllables in
Spanish that end with 'p', like "ap-nea", "ap-to", "sep-tiembre".
There was some issue associating 'ñ' with 'n' but, unfortunately, I
don't remember what, sorry.

I hope my explanation is helpful anyway. :-)


-- 
Walter



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