hyph-utf8
Provides standardized hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 format, ensuring consistent word breaks across modern TeX engines and legacy systems.
Overview
Serves as a fundamental infrastructure package for proper text hyphenation in multilingual documents, bridging modern and traditional TeX systems. The package maintains compatibility while modernizing hyphenation pattern handling.
- Enables consistent hyphenation behavior across XeTeX, LuaTeX, and traditional TeX engines.
- Includes converters for backward compatibility with 8-bit font encodings (OT1, T2A, TS1, etc.).
- Critical for high-quality typesetting of multilingual documents where proper word breaks are essential.
- Particularly valuable for documents using multiple languages or requiring precise typography in non-English texts.
Getting Started
The hyph-utf8 package is a library that provides hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 format for modern TeX engines. It is not a LaTeX package that you include directly in your documents, but rather a component of your TeX distribution.
No special setup is required in your LaTeX documents to use the functionality provided by hyph-utf8. The appropriate hyphenation patterns are loaded automatically based on the document language and the TeX engine you're using.