Re: [Groff] german localization

[Ted Harding]

On 15-Jan-02 Bernd Warken wrote:
> The German orthography is in a revision.  The old German orthography
> originates from the year 1901.  It will be valid up to 2005.
> The new rules are valid since August 1998.
> 
> The most prominent hyphenation changes include
> 
>             1901          1998
> ck          k-k           -ck
> st          -st           s-t
> 
> Maybe we should keep two different sets of rules.

I think we should have all the rules we might ever need.

Ted (who might one day decide to quote extensively from
     "Die Blechtrommel").

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Date: 16-Jan-02                                       Time: 07:11:40
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