Re: [groff] 06/17: tmac/{de,fr}.tmac: Respell string translations.

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-11-14T14:56:13-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:11 AM G. Branden Robinson
> <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think this would break the part of the file that sets up the
> > hyphenation codes, which have to be 8-bit encoded given the current
> > state of the formatter.
> 
> The only 8-bit characters in ru.tmac are on the ".ds \*[locale]"
> lines; the hyphenation codes are in tmac/hyphen.ru, loaded from
> ru.tmac via .hpf.  So if (from groff's point of view) ru.tmac were a
> purely 7-bit file, hyphen.ru should be able to retain its 8-bit
> encoding.

Ah, you're right of course.  I was confusedly thinking of the recent
case where we put some `hcode` requests into en.tmac to make some
accented letter equivalent to their Basic Latin counterparts since no
English hyphenation rule depends on the presence of a diacritical mark.

(Perhaps not true?  Maybe the New Yorker dieresis should?)

Sorry for my confusion.

Regards,
Branden

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