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From: phil@cs.mcgill.ca (Philip LOCONG)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Problem with TeX character codes
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.211131.3861@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 7 Feb 91 21:11:31 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.175735.12642@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>knuutila@tucos.utu.fi (Timo Knuutila) writes:
>
>>Dear TeXackers,
>
>>I encountered the following problem when trying to marry TeX, PostScript fonts
>>and foreign language hyphenation in my TeX-system (SB-TeX, emTeX drivers and
>>font libraries, dvips54, 386 PC).
>
>You could try adding virtual fonts to this...
>
>...
>
>This is too low level. Have you tried 
>
>  \catcode`x\active \def x{\char"99 }
>
>? That addresses directly the font position, without trying
>to force some earlier translation table.
>
>Victor.

try emTeX, it has an option (TeX code page) just for this :-)

Phil