Re: a multilingual hyphenation challenge

[onf]

On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM CET, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local
> > to the environment... 
>
> But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".

Would it?

$ nroff -ww << EOF
.pl 3
.ll 60n
My life is spent in one long effort to escape the commonplaces of existence.
These little problems help me to do so.
EOF
My  life  is  spent in one long effort to escape the common‐
places of existence.  These little problems help  me  to  do
so.

$ nroff -ww << EOF
.pl 3
.ll 60n
.hla fr
My life is spent in one long effort to escape the commonplaces of existence.
These little problems help me to do so.
EOF
My   life  is  spent  in  one  long  effort  to  escape  the
commonplaces of existence.  These little problems help me to
do so.

~ onf