CTAN has a new package: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8

[CTAN Announcements]

Please note that the location of this package has been changed to
language/hyph-utf8 (and the package identifier has changed also).

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
Author's name: Jonathan Kew, Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer
Location on CTAN: language/hyph-utf8
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8 and 
 should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any change in 
 functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream replacement 
 that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions instead of loding 
 the old files.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX have urged the need to 
provide hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 format.

These patterns should replace the old ones eventually.

This is the first upload to CTAN that will enable testing for 
TeX Live 2008 and is not yet set in stone. In particular we still want 
to change all the copyright notes in patterns, and add some 
documentation.

SVN repository is available on http://www.tug.org/svn/texhyphen.

Bug reports and feature requests welcome.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
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