Re: [Groff] Hyphenation with Russian

[Anton Shepelev]

I  have  made a break-through! I have made hyphenationn work
by just referring to latin1.tmac instead of koi8-r.tmac from
ru.tmac. Can anyone explain me how and why it works?

With  koi8-r.tmac  I  keep getting that "Special symbol" er-
ror...

>  > I  have  found  all  the  files:  koi8-r.tmac,  ru.tmac  and
>  > hyphen.ru (in the koi8-r  encoding).  The  koi8-r.tmac  file
>  > consists of lines like:
>  >
>  >   .trin \[char186]\[u2568]
>  >
>  > and  I believe it maps UTF-8 to KOI8-R, hence I cocluded the
>  > input file should be in the UTF-8  encoding.
>
>
> This is not correct.  groff has a fixed set of built-in entities like
>  \[aq] or \[em] -- this list won't be changed any more.  All other
>  entities get algorithmic names of the form \[uXXXX] and some other
>  forms based on the Adobe Glyph List conventions; please look this up
>  in the groff info manual if you are interested.  It has *no relation*
>  to the used input encoding except the fact that such glyph names in
>  its simplest form are using the Unicode character code as part of its
>  name.
>
>     Werner