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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: TeX3.0 Questions: 8bit/\language
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massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) writes:

>I've installed TeX3.0 now on our system. But I couldn't read anywhere about
>the changes. 
Changes have been incorporated in the new editions of the TeX book.
Also Tugboat gives the incremental changes between versions.
> I heard about the \language command to change hyphenation tables,
>but how have I to include different hyphenation tables in plain.tex?
Hyphenation tables can only be incorporated when you are running
IniTeX, so you could for instance doing that by \input-ing 
different hyphen.tex files. Pattersn read hold for the language
that is the current value of \langauge.

>And I heard about something about 8 bit. What can I do with it?
Not much. You can now have 8-bit input characters, but there are
not many applications of that yet.

Victor.