Update hyph-utf8 (SVN #580) and package descriptions.

- complete descriptions for tlpsrc files
- updated Hungarian patterns
- change language tag for Pinyin (zh-latn -> zh-latn-pinyin)
- remove trailing spaces from patterns, change line terminators for Spanish
- fix typos in documentation
- update unicode module in ruby: different character set for uppercase letters in Greek and German



git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@23085 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 621 insertions, 108 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/hyph-utf8/languages.rb b/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/hyph-utf8/languages.rb
index 4064edb2618..fad3d02665d 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/hyph-utf8/languages.rb
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/hyph-utf8/languages.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ class Language
 
 		@description_s = language_hash["description_s"]
 		@description_l = language_hash["description_l"]
+		@version       = language_hash["version"]
 		
 		if @synonyms==nil then @synonyms = [] end
 	end
@@ -106,14 +107,14 @@ class Language
 
 	attr_reader :use_new_loader, :use_old_patterns, :use_old_patterns_comment, :filename_old_patterns
 	attr_reader :code, :name, :synonyms, :hyphenmin, :encoding, :exceptions, :message
-	attr_reader :description_s, :description_l
+	attr_reader :description_s, :description_l, :version
 	# this hack is needed for Serbian
 	attr_writer :code
 end
 
 
 authors = {
-	"peter_heslin"        => ["Peter", "Heslin", "", false, false],
+	"peter_heslin"        => ["Peter", "Heslin", nil, false, false],
 	"dimitrios_filippou"  => ["Dimitrios", "Filippou", "dfilipp{at}hotmail{dot}com", true, true],
 	"claudio_beccari"     => ["Claudio", "Beccari","claudio{dot}beccari{at}polito{dot}it", true, true],
 	"juan_aguirregabiria" => ["Juan M.", "Aguirregabiria", "juanmari{dot}aguirregabiria{at}ehu.es", true, true],
@@ -139,6 +140,44 @@ authors = {
 	"ole_michael_selberg" => ["Ole Michael", "Selberg", nil, false, false],
 	"dorjgotov_batmunkh"  => ["Dorjgotov", "Batmunkh", "bataak{at}gmail{dot}com", true, true],
 	"nazar_annagurban"    => ["Nazar", "Annagurban", "nazartm{at}gmail{dot}com", false, false],
+	"jan_michael_rynning" => ["Jan Michael", "Rynning", nil, false, false],
+	"eduard_werner"       => ["Eduard", "Werner", "edi{dot}werner{at}gmx{dot}de", false, false],
+	"werner_lemberg"      => ["Werner", "Lemberg", "wl{at}gnu{dot}org", true, true],
+	"pedro_j_de_rezende"  => ["Pedro J.", "de Rezende", "rezende{at}ddc{dot}unicamp{dot}br", false, false],
+	"j_joao_dias_almeida" => ["J. Joao", "Dias Almeida", "jj{at}di{dot}uminho{dot}pt"],
+	"piet_tutelaers"      => ["Piet", "Tutelaers", "P{dot}T{dot}H{dot}Tutelaers{at}tue{dot}nl", false, false],
+	"vytas_statulevicius" => ["Vytas", "Statulevičius", "vytas{at}vtex{dot}nl", false, false],
+	"sigitas_tolusis"     => ["Sigitas", "Tolusis", "sigitas{at}vtex{dot}lt", false, false],
+	"janis_vilims"        => ["Janis", "Vilims", "jvilims{at}apollo{dot}lv", false, false],
+	"joerg_knappen"       => ["Jörg", "Knappen", "knappen{at}vkpmzd{dot}kph{dot}uni-mainz{dot}de", false, false], # TODO From id patterns; obviously there must be some more recent address for him
+	"medeni_semde"        => ["Medeni", "Shemdê", nil, false, false],
+	"terry_mart"          => ["Terry", "Mart", "mart{at}kph{dot}uni-mainz{dot}de", false, false],
+	"jorgen_pind"         => ["Jorgen", "Pind", "jorgen{at}lexis{dot}hi{dot}is", false, false],
+	"marteinn_sverrisson" => ["Marteinn", "Sverrisson", nil, false, false],
+	"kristinn_gylfason"   => ["Kristinn", "Gylfason", "kristgy{at}ieee{dot}org"],
+	"kevin_p_scannell"    => ["Kevin P.", "Scannell", "scanell{at}slu{dot}edu", false, false],
+	"peter_kleiweg"       => ["Peter", "Kleiweg", "p{dot}c{dot}c{dot}kleiweg{at}rug{dot}nl", false, false],
+	"hanna_kolodziejska"  => ["Hanna", "Kołodziejska", nil, false, false],
+	"boguslaw_jackowski"  => ["Bogusław", "Jackowski", nil, true, true],
+	"marek_rycko"         => ["Marek", "Ryćko", nil, false, false],
+	"vladimir_volovich"   => ["Vladimir", "Volovich", nil, true, true], # TODO add e-mail address
+	"alexander_i_lebedev" => ["Alexander I.", "Lebedev", "swan{at}scon155{dot}phys{dot}msu{dot}su", false, false], # Not sure were 'I' belongs
+	"maksym_polyakov"     => ["Maksym", "Polyakov", "polyama{at}auburn{dot}edu", false, false], # Second e-mail address in ukrhypmp.tex: mpoliak@i.com.ua
+	"adrian_rezus"        => ["Adrian", "Rezus", "adriaan{at}\{sci,cs\}{dot}kun{dot}nl", false, false],
+	"sahak_petrosyan"     => ["Sahak", "Petrosyan", "sahak{at}mit{dot}edu", true, true], # I think "true, true" is right.  Arthur
+	"dominik_wujastyk"    => ["Dominik", "Wujastyk", nil, false, false], # TODO Dominik is quite active on the XeTeX list, make contact with him
+	"graham_toal"         => ["Graham", "Toal", nil, false, false],
+	"donald_e_knuth"      => ["Donald E.", "Knuth", nil, false, false], # Don doesn't use e-mail ;-)
+	"gerard_d_c_kuiken"   => ["Gerard D.C.", "Kuiken", nil, false, false],
+	"pierre_mackay"       => ["P. A.", "MacKay", nil, true, true],
+	"h_turgut_uyar"       => ["H. Turgut", "Uyar", "uyar{at}itu{dot}edu{tr}", true, true],
+	"s_ekin_kocabas"      => ["S. Ekin", "Kocabas", "kocabas{at}stanford{dot}edu", true, true],
+	"bence_nagy"          => ["Bence", "Nagy", "nagybence{at}tipogral{dot}hu", true, true],
+	"kauko_saarinen"      => ["Kauko", "Saarinen", nil, false, false],
+	"fred_karlsson"       => ["Fred", "Karlsson", nil, false, false],
+	"rene_bastian"        => ["René", "Bastian", nil, false, false], # TODO make contact
+	"daniel_flipo"        => ["Daniel", "Flipo", nil, false, false], # TODO make contact
+	"bernard_gaulle"      => ["Bernard", "Gaulle", nil, false, false], # Deceased...
 }
 
 
@@ -182,6 +221,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	# TODO
 	"description_s" => "(No) Arabic hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
 		"Prevent hyphenation in Arabic.",
 	],
 },
@@ -201,6 +241,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	# TODO
 	"description_s" => "(No) Persian hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
 		"Prevent hyphenation in Persian.",
 	],
 },
@@ -220,11 +261,12 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"message" => "Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns for Ibycus encoding (v3.0)",
 	
 	# "authors" => ["peter_heslin"],
+	"version" => 3.0,
 },
 # ----------------------------
 # languages using old patterns
 # ----------------------------
-# greek		xu-grphyph4.tex
+# greek
 # =polygreek
 {
 	"code" => "el-polyton",
@@ -236,15 +278,28 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	# left/right hyphen min for Greek can be as low as one (1),
 	# but for aesthetic reasons keep them at 2/2.
 	# Dimitrios Filippou
-	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglosia
+	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglossia
 	"encoding" => nil,
 	"exceptions" => true,
-#	"message" => "Polytonic Greek hyphenation patterns",
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for multi-accent (polytonic) Modern Greek",
-	
-	# "authors" => ["dimitrios_filippou"],
-},
-# monogreek	xu-grmhyph4.tex
+
+	"version"       => "5.0",
+	"last_modified" => "2008-06-06",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["dimitrios_filippou"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	# "description_s" => "Polytonic Modern Greek hyphenation patterns",
+	# #                  #.....................................................................#
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	#......................................................................#
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for Modern Greek in polytonic spelling.",
+	# 	"The pattern file used for 8-bit engines is grphyph5.tex that is",
+	# 	"not part of hyph-utf8. Patterns in UTF-8 use two code positions for",
+	# 	"each of the vowels with acute accent (a.k.a tonos, oxia), e.g.,",
+	# 	"U+03AC, U+1F71 for alpha.",
+	# ],
+},
+# monogreek
 {
 	"code" => "el-monoton",
 	"name" => "monogreek",
@@ -252,13 +307,33 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_old_patterns" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns_comment" => "Old patterns work in a different way, one-to-one conversion from UTF-8 is not possible.",
 	"filename_old_patterns" => "grmhyph5.tex",
-	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglosia
+	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglossia
 	"encoding" => nil,
 	"exceptions" => true,
-#	"message" => "Monotonic Greek hyphenation patterns",
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for uni-accent (monotonic) Modern Greek",
-	
-	# "authors" => ["dimitrios_filippou"],
+
+	"version"       => "5.0",
+	"last_modified" => "2008-06-06",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["dimitrios_filippou"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	# "description_s" => "Monotonic Modern Greek hyphenation patterns",
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	#......................................................................#
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for Modern Greek in monotonic spelling.",
+	# 	"The pattern file used for 8-bit engines is grmhyph5.tex, in Babel's LGR encoding,",
+	# 	"that is not part of hyph-utf8.",
+	# 	"Patterns in UTF-8 use two code positions for each of the vowels with acute accent",
+	# 	"(a.k.a tonos, oxia), e.g., U+03AD, U+1F73 for epsilon.",
+	# ],
+	"description_s" => "Modern Greek hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Modern Greek in monotonic and polytonic",
+		"spelling in LGR and UTF-8 encodings.  Patterns in UTF-8 use two code",
+		"positions for each of the vowels with acute accent (a.k.a tonos,",
+		"oxia), e.g., U+03AC, U+1F71 for alpha.",
+	],
 },
 # ancientgreek
 {
@@ -268,21 +343,32 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_old_patterns" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns_comment" => "Old patterns work in a different way, one-to-one conversion from UTF-8 is not possible.",
 	"filename_old_patterns" => "grahyph5.tex",
-	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglosia
+	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglossia
 	"encoding" => nil,
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek",
 
 	"version"       => "5.0",
-	"last_modified" => "2008-05-27",
+	"last_modified" => "2008-06-06",
 	"type"          => "rules",
 	"authors"       => ["dimitrios_filippou"],
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	# "description_s" => "Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns",
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	#......................................................................#
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek.",
+	# 	"The pattern file used for 8-bit engines is grahyph5.tex, in Babel's LGR encoding,",
+	# 	"that is not part of hyph-utf8.",
+	# 	"Patterns in UTF-8 use two code positions for each of the vowels with acute accent",
+	# 	"(a.k.a tonos, oxia), e.g., U+03AE, U+1F75 for eta.",
+	# ],
 	"description_s" => "Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns",
-	# TODO: please help me rewrite this
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek language in UTF-8 encoding",
-		"as well as in ASCII-based LGR encoding of babel for 8-bit engines.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek in LGR and UTF-8 encodings,",
+		"including support for (obsolete) Ibycus font encoding.",
+		"Patterns in UTF-8 use two code positions for each of the vowels with",
+		"acute accent (a.k.a tonos, oxia), e.g., U+03AE, U+1F75 for eta.",
 	],
 },
 # coptic
@@ -293,7 +379,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_old_patterns" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns_comment" => "TODO: automatic conversion could be done, but was too complicated; leave for later.",
 	"filename_old_patterns" => "copthyph.tex",
-	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglosia TODO: no documentation found
+	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # polyglossia TODO: no documentation found
 	"encoding" => nil,
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Coptic hyphenation patterns",
@@ -302,16 +388,17 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"last_modified" => "2004-10-03",
 	"type"          => "rules",
 	"authors"       => [ "claudio_beccari" ],
-	"licence"       => "LPPL", # TODO: check; catalogue says so
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Coptic hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Coptic language in UTF-8 encoding",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Coptic in UTF-8 encoding",
 		"as well as in ASCII-based encoding for 8-bit engines.",
 		"The latter can only be used with special Coptic fonts (like CBcoptic).",
 		"The patterns are considered experimental.",
 	],
 },
-# german		xu-dehypht.tex
+# german
 {
 	"code" => "de-1901",
 	"name" => "german",
@@ -323,8 +410,34 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "German hyphenation patterns (traditional orthography)",
-},
-# ngerman		xu-dehyphn.tex
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2011-06-01", # For the active project
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["werner_lemberg"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	# "description_s" => "German hyphenation patterns in traditional spelling",
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for German in traditional spelling, in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+	# 	"Patterns encoded in UTF-8 are provided by a separate package.",
+	# ],
+
+	"description_s" => "German hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for German in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings,",
+		"for traditional and reformed spelling, including Swiss German.",
+		"The package includes the latest patterns from dehyph-exptl",
+		"(known to TeX under names 'german', 'ngerman' and 'swissgerman'),",
+		"however 8-bit engines still load old versions of patterns",
+		"for 'german' and 'ngerman' for backward-compatibility reasons.",
+		"Swiss German patterns are suitable for Swiss Standard German",
+		"(Hochdeutsch) not the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland",
+		"(Schwyzerduetsch).",
+		"There are no known patterns for written Schwyzerduetsch.",
+	]
+},
+# ngerman
 {
 	"code" => "de-1996",
 	"name" => "ngerman",
@@ -336,19 +449,43 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "German hyphenation patterns (reformed orthography)",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2011-06-01", # For the active project
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["werner_lemberg"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	# "description_s" => "German hyphenation patterns in reformed spelling",
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for German in reformed spelling, in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+	# 	"Patterns encoded in UTF-8 are provided by a separate package.",
+	# ],
 },
 # swissgerman
 {
 	"code" => "de-ch-1901",
-	"name" => "swissgerman", # TODO: how is it going to be called
+	"name" => "swissgerman",
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [2,2], # babel
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Swiss-German hyphenation patterns (traditional orthography)",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2011-06-01", # For the active project
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["werner_lemberg"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	# "description_l" => "German hyphenation patterns, traditional spelling in Switzerland.",
+	# "description_s" => [
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for German in traditional spelling as used in Switzerland, in T1/EC and UTF-8.",
+	# 	"These patterns are suitable for Standard German (Hochdeutsch), not the Alemannic dialects",
+	# 	"spoken in Switzerland (Schwyzerdütsch).  There are no patterns for written Schwyzerdütsch",
+	# 	"we know of.",
+	# ],
 },
-# russian	xu-ruhyphen.tex
+# russian
 {
 	"code" => "ru",
 	"name" => "russian",
@@ -360,8 +497,24 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "t2a",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Russian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2003-03-10", # Date of the patterns proper, not the support files
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["alexander_i_lebedev", "werner_lemberg", "vladimir_volovich"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Russian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Russian in T2A and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"For 8-bit engines, the 'ruhyphen' package provides a number of",
+		"different pattern sets, as well as different (8-bit) encodings, that",
+		"can be chosen at format-generation time.  The UTF-8 version only",
+		"provides the default pattern set.  A mechanism similar to the one used",
+		"for 8-bit patterns may be implemented in the future.",
+	],
 },
-# ukrainian	xu-ukrhyph.tex
+# ukrainian
 {
 	"code" => "uk",
 	"name" => "ukrainian",
@@ -373,6 +526,22 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "t2a",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Ukrainian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2001-05-10", # Date of the patterns proper
+	# "type"          => "rules", # TODO: it is not really clear
+	"authors"       => ["maksym_polyakov", "werner_lemberg", "vladimir_volovich"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Ukrainian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian in T2A and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"For 8-bit engines, the 'ukrhyph' package provides a number of",
+		"different pattern sets, as well as different (8-bit) encodings, that",
+		"can be chosen at format-generation time.  The UTF-8 version only",
+		"provides the default pattern set.  A mechanism similar to the one used",
+		"for 8-bit patterns may be implemented in the future.",
+	],
 },
 # ----------------------------
 # languages using new patterns
@@ -397,10 +566,11 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Afrikaans hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Afrikaans language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
-		"(OpenOffice includes older patterns created by a different author,",
-		"but the patterns packaged with TeX are considered superior in quality.)",
-		"Word list used to generate patterns with opatgen might be released in future.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Afrikaans in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"OpenOffice includes older patterns created by a different author,",
+		"but the patterns packaged with TeX are considered superior in quality.",
+		# "Word list used to generate patterns with opatgen might be released in future.",
 	],
 },
 # catalan
@@ -422,7 +592,8 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Catalan hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Catalan language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Catalan in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # czech
@@ -453,9 +624,10 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "GPL",
 	"description_s" => "Czech hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Czech language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
-		"Original patterns 'czhyphen' are still distributed in 'csplain' package",
-		"and loaded with ISO Latin 2 encoding (IL2).",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Czech in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"Original patterns 'czhyphen' are still distributed in the 'csplain'",
+		"package and loaded with ISO Latin 2 encoding (IL2).",
 		# however hyph-utf8 could also be used for that
 	],
 },
@@ -480,9 +652,10 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "GPL",
 	"description_s" => "Slovak hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Slovak language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
-		"Original patterns 'skhyphen' are still distributed in 'csplain' package",
-		"and loaded with ISO Latin 2 encoding (IL2).",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Slovak in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"Original patterns 'skhyphen' are still distributed in the 'csplain'",
+		"package and loaded with ISO Latin 2 encoding (IL2).",
 		# however hyph-utf8 could also be used for that
 	],
 },
@@ -505,7 +678,8 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Welsh hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Welsh language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Welsh in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # danish
@@ -528,7 +702,8 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Danish hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Danish language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Danish in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # esperanto
@@ -550,10 +725,15 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Esperanto hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Esperanto language in UTF-8 and ISO Latin 3 (IL3) encoding.",
-		"Note that TeX distributions usually don't ship any suitable fonts in that encoding,",
-		"so unless you create your own font support or want to use MlTeX,",
-		"using native UTF-8 engines is highly recommended.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Esperanto ISO Latin 3 and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"Note that TeX distributions don't ship any suitable fonts in Latin 3",
+		"encoding, so unless you create your own font support or want to use",
+		"MlTeX, using native Unicode engines is highly recommended.",
+		# "Hyphenation patterns for Esperanto ISO Latin 3 and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# "Note that TeX distributions usually don't ship any suitable fonts in",
+		# "Latin 3 encoding, so unless you create your own font support or want",
+		# "to use MlTeX, using native UTF-8 engines is highly recommended.",
 	],
 },
 # spanish
@@ -576,7 +756,8 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Spanish hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Spanish language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Spanish in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # basque
@@ -598,11 +779,12 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "other-free", # "public-check",
 	"description_s" => "Basque hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Basque language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
-		"Generating scripts for these rule-based patterns is included in hyph-utf8."
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Basque in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# "Generating scripts for these rule-based patterns is included in hyph-utf8."
 	],
 },
-# french		xu-frhyph.tex
+# french
 # =patois
 # =francais
 {
@@ -615,8 +797,21 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "French hyphenation patterns (V2.12, 2002/12/11)",
+
+	"version"       => "2.12",
+	"last_modified" => "2002-12-11",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["rene_bastian", "daniel_flipo", "bernard_gaulle"],
+	# TODO for Arthur: recreate mailing-list
+	# "email"         => ["cesure-l{at}gutenberg{dot}eu{dot}org"],
+	"licence"       => "other-free", # Knuthian type
+	"description_s" => "French hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for French in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	]
 },
-# galician	xu-glhyph.tex
+# galician
 {
 	"code" => "gl",
 	"name" => "galician",
@@ -627,6 +822,18 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Galician hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "2.4",
+	"last_modified" => "2010-04-23",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["javier_mugica"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL", # Status maintained
+	"description_s" => "Galician hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Galician in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# "Generated automatically from the mkpattern utility.",
+	]
 },
 # estonian
 {
@@ -647,10 +854,11 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Estonian hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Estonian language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Estonian in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
-# finnish		fihyph.tex
+# finnish
 {
 	"code" => "fi",
 	"name" => "finnish",
@@ -661,6 +869,17 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Finnish hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "2.2",
+	"last_modified" => "1989-03-08",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["kauko_saarinen", "fred_karlsson"],
+	"licence"       => "other-free",
+	"description_s" => "Finnish hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Finnish in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
 # croatian
 {
@@ -681,20 +900,35 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Croatian hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Croatian language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Croatian in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
-# hungarian	xu-huhyphn.tex
+# hungarian
 {
 	"code" => "hu",
 	"name" => "hungarian",
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"filename_old_patterns" => "huhyphn.tex",
-	"hyphenmin" => [2,2], # polyglosia
+	"hyphenmin" => [2,2], # polyglossia
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
-	"message" => "Hungarian hyphenation patterns (v20031107)",
+	"message" => "Hungarian hyphenation patterns (v20090612)",
+
+	# https://github.com/nagybence/huhyphn/
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2009-06-12",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["bence_nagy"],
+	"licence"       => "GPL",
+	"description_s" => "Hungarian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Hungarian in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# TODO: same comment as for Irish: I'm slightly reluctant to put URL addresses here.
+		"From https://github.com/nagybence/huhyphn/."
+	],
 },
 # armenian
 # Sahak Petrosyan <sahak at mit dot edu>
@@ -708,8 +942,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => nil,
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Armenian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2010-05",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["sahak_petrosyan"],
+	"licence"       => "LPGL",
+	"description_s" => "Armenian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Armenian for Unicode engines.",
+		# "Auto-generated from a script included in hyph-utf8.",
+	],
 },
-# interlingua	iahyphen.tex
+# interlingua
 {
 	"code" => "ia",
 	"name" => "interlingua",
@@ -720,8 +966,19 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ascii",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for Interlingua",
+
+	"version"       => "0.2c",
+	"last_modified" => "2005-06-28",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["peter_kleiweg"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL", # TODO Status maintained
+	"description_s" => "Interlingua hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Interlingua in ASCII encoding.",
+	],
 },
-# indonesian	inhyph.tex
+# indonesian
 {
 	"code" => "id",
 	"name" => "indonesian",
@@ -732,8 +989,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ascii",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Indonesian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "1.3",
+	"last_modified" => "1997-09-19",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["joerg_knappen", "terry_mart"],
+	"licence"       => "GPL",
+	"description_s" => "Indonesian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) in ASCII",
+		"encoding.  They are probably also usable for Malay (Bahasa Melayu).",
+	],
 },
-# icelandic	icehyph.tex
+# icelandic
 {
 	"code" => "is",
 	"name" => "icelandic",
@@ -744,8 +1013,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Icelandic hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2004-03-02",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	# TODO: I'm not sure that the last two names are relevant, I don't find the source of Marteinn Sverrisson
+	"authors"       => ["jorgen_pind", "marteinn_sverrisson", "kristinn_gylfason"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Icelandic hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Icelandic in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
-# irish		gahyph.tex
+# irish
 {
 	"code" => "ga",
 	"name" => "irish",
@@ -756,8 +1037,21 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Irish hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "1.0",
+	"last_modified" => "2004-01-22",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["kevin_p_scannell"],
+	"licence"       => "GPL",
+	"description_s" => "Irish hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Irish (Gaeilge) in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"Visit http://borel.slu.edu/fleiscin/index.html for more information.",
+		# TODO: I'm slightly reluctant to put URL here
+	],
 },
-# italian		ithyph.tex
+# italian
 {
 	"code" => "it",
 	"name" => "italian",
@@ -768,6 +1062,23 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ascii",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Italian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "4.8h",
+	"last_modified" => "2010-05-24",
+	"type"          => "rules", # TODO: we might want to check that, but it seems unlikely that patgen was used
+	"authors"       => ["claudio_beccari"],
+	"licence"       => "LGPL",
+	"description_s" => "Italian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Italian in ASCII encoding.",
+		# supposed to be ...
+		"Compliant with the Recommendation UNI 6461 on hyphenation",
+		"issued by the Italian Standards Institution",
+		"(Ente Nazionale di Unificazione UNI).",
+		# "Implements Recommendation UNI 6461 issued by the Italian Standards Institution",
+		# "(Ente Nazionale di Unificazione UNI).",
+	],
 },
 # kurmanji
 {
@@ -780,6 +1091,19 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Kurmanji hyphenation patterns (v. 1.0 2009/06/29 JKn and MSh)",
+
+	"version"       => "1.0",
+	"last_modified" => "2009-06-29",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["joerg_knappen", "medeni_shemde"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL", # Status: maintained!
+	"description_s" => "Kurmanji hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) as spoken in",
+		"Turkey and by the Kurdish diaspora in Europe, in T1/EC and UTF-8",
+		"encodings."
+	],
 },
 # latin
 {
@@ -801,10 +1125,11 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Latin hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Latin language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding,",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Latin in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings,",
 		"mainly in modern spelling (u when u is needed and v when v is needed),",
 		"medieval spelling with the ligatures \\ae and \\oe and the (uncial)",
-		"lowercase 'v' written as a 'u' is also supported. Apparently",
+		"lowercase 'v' written as a 'u' is also supported.  Apparently",
 		"there is no conflict between the patterns of modern Latin and",
 		"those of medieval Latin.",
 	],
@@ -819,6 +1144,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "l7x",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Lithuanian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2002-11-20", # 1992-03-04, for the content?
+	"authors"       => ["vytas_statulevicius", "yannis_haralambous", "sigitas_tolusis"],
+	# "licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Lithuanian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Lithuanian in L7X and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# "Designed for \\lefthyphenmin and \\righthyphenmin set to 2.",
+		"\\lefthyphenmin and \\righthyphenmin have to be at least 2.",
+		# "Changing them to 1 according to grammatical rules from 1997",
+		# "would require to review and maybe rebuild the patterns."
+	],
 },
 # latvian
 {
@@ -830,8 +1169,19 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "l7x",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Latvian hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "0.3",
+	"last_modified" => "2005-09-14",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["janis_vilims"],
+	"licence"       => "LGPL",
+	"description_s" => "Latvian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Latvian in L7X and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
-# dutch		nehyph96.tex
+# dutch
 {
 	"code" => "nl",
 	"name" => "dutch",
@@ -844,8 +1194,23 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Dutch hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "1.1",
+	"last_modified" => "1996-11",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["piet_tutelaers"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Dutch hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Dutch in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# "\\lefthyphenmin and \\righthyphenmin must both be > 1.",
+		"These patterns don't handle cases like 'menuutje' > 'menu-tje',",
+		"and don't hyphenate words that have different hyphenations according",
+		"to their meaning."
+	],
 },
-# polish		xu-plhyph.tex
+# polish
 {
 	"code" => "pl",
 	"name" => "polish",
@@ -857,8 +1222,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "qx",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Polish hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "3.0a",
+	"last_modified" => "1995-06-17",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["hanna_kolodziejska", "boguslaw_jackowski", "marek_rycko"],
+	"licence"       => "public", # TODO Knuthian type
+	"description_s" => "Polish hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Polish in QX and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"These patterns are also used by Polish TeX formats MeX and LaMeX.",
+	],
 },
-# portuguese	pthyph.tex
+# portuguese
 # =portuges
 {
 	"code" => "pt",
@@ -870,10 +1247,21 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Portuguese hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version"       => "1.0",
+	"last_modified" => "1996-07-21",
+	"type"          => "rules", # TODO: we could create a generating script
+	"authors"       => ["pedro_j_de_rezende", "j_joao_dias_almeida"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Portuguese hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Portuguese in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
-# pinyin		xu-pyhyph.tex
+# pinyin
 {
-	"code" => "zh-latn",
+	"code" => "zh-latn-pinyin",
 	"name" => "pinyin",
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
@@ -882,8 +1270,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for unaccented pinyin syllables (CJK 4.8.0)",
+
+	"version"       => "4.8.0",
+	"last_modified" => "2008-05-22",
+	"type"          => "rules", # TODO: we could create a generating script
+	"authors"       => ["werner_lemberg"],
+	"licence"       => "GPL",
+	"description_s" => "Chinese pinyin hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for unaccented transliterated Mandarin Chinese",
+		"(pinyin) in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
-# romanian	xu-rohyphen.tex
+# romanian
 {
 	"code" => "ro",
 	"name" => "romanian",
@@ -894,6 +1294,20 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Romanian hyphenation patterns", # : `rohyphen' 1.1 <29.10.1996>
+
+	"version"       => "1.1R",
+	"last_modified" => "1996-11-07",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["adrian_rezus"],
+	"description_s" => "Romanian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Romanian in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"The UTF-8 patterns use U+0219 for the character 's with comma accent'",
+		"and U+021B for 't with comma accent', but we may consider using U+015F",
+		"and U+0163 as well in the future.",
+		# "Generated by PatGen2-output hyphen-level 9.",
+	],
 },
 # slovenian
 # =slovene
@@ -915,10 +1329,11 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Slovenian hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Slovenian language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Slovenian in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
-# uppersorbian	xu-sorhyph.tex
+# uppersorbian
 {
 	"code" => "hsb",
 	"name" => "uppersorbian",
@@ -931,8 +1346,19 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"message" => "Upper Sorbian hyphenation patterns (E. Werner)",
 #	\message{Hyphenation patterns for Upper Sorbian, E. Werner}
 #	\message{Completely new revision 1997, March 22}
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "1997-03-22",
+	"authors"       => ["eduard_werner"],
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Upper Sorbian hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Upper Sorbian in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
-# swedish		svhyph.tex
+# swedish
 {
 	"code" => "sv",
 	"name" => "swedish",
@@ -943,6 +1369,18 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Swedish hyphenation patterns (Jan Michael Rynning, 1994-03-03)",
+
+	# "version"       => "1994-03-03", # that is what author used in message
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "1994-03-03",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["jan_michael_rynning"],
+	"licence"       => "LPPL",
+	"description_s" => "Swedish hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Swedish in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+	],
 },
 # turkmen
 {
@@ -958,12 +1396,13 @@ class Languages < Hash
 
 	"version"       => "0.1",
 	"last_modified" => "2010-03-16",
-	"type"          => "rules",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
 	"authors"       => [ "nazar_annagurban" ],
 	"licence"       => "public",
 	"description_s" => "Turkmen hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Turkmen language in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Turkmen in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # turkish
@@ -973,12 +1412,33 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"filename_old_patterns" => "tkhyph.tex",
-	"hyphenmin" => [2,2], # polyglosia
+	"hyphenmin" => [2,2], # polyglossia
 	"encoding" => "ec",
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Turkish hyphenation patterns",
+
+	"version" => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2008-06-28",
+	"type"          => "rules",
+	"authors"       => ["pierre_mackay", "h_turgut_uyar", "s_ekin_kocabas", "mojca_miklavec"],
+	"licence"       => "public-ask", # TODO
+	"description_s" => "Turkish hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Turkish in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		# "Auto-generated from a script included in the distribution.",
+		"The patterns for Turkish were first produced for the Ottoman Texts",
+		"Project in 1987 and were suitable for both Modern Turkish and Ottoman",
+		"Turkish in Latin script, however the required character set didn't fit",
+		"into EC encoding, so support for Ottoman Turkish had to be dropped to",
+		"keep compatibility with 8-bit engines.",
+	]
 },
-# ukenglish	ukhyphen.tex
+
+
+
+
+# ukenglish
 {
 	"code" => "en-gb",
 	"name" => "ukenglish", "synonyms" => ["british", "UKenglish"],
@@ -989,8 +1449,31 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ascii",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for British English",
+
+	"version"       => "1.0a", # FIXME a much older comment says 2.0?
+	"last_modified" => "2005-10-18",
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["dominik_wujastyk", "graham_toal"],
+	"licence"       => "other-free", # TODO Knuth-like
+	# (This will be uncommented during reimplementation)
+	# "description_s" => "British English hyphenation patterns",
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for British English in ASCII encoding.",
+	# ],
+
+	"description_s" => "English hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Additional hyphenation patterns for American and British",
+		"English in ASCII encoding.  The American English patterns",
+		"(usenglishmax) greatly extend the standard patterns from Knuth",
+		"to find many additional hyphenation points.  British English",
+		"hyphenation is completely different from US English, so has its",
+		"own set of patterns.",
+	],
 },
-# US english
+# (US english)
+# usenglishmax
 {
 	"code" => "en-us",
 	"name" => "usenglishmax",
@@ -1001,6 +1484,17 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"encoding" => "ascii",
 	"exceptions" => true,
 	"message" => "Hyphenation patterns for American English",
+
+	"version"       => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "1990-03-01", # 8-bit file also has version 2005-05-30.
+	"type"          => "dictionary",
+	"authors"       => ["donald_e_knuth", "gerard_d_c_kuiken"],
+	"licence"       => "other-free",
+	# (This will be uncommented during reimplementation)
+	# "description_s" => "American English hyphenation patterns",
+	# "description_l" => [
+	# 	"Hyphenation patterns for American English in ASCII encoding.",
+	# ],
 },
 # US english
 # {
@@ -1024,7 +1518,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"filename_old_patterns" => "shhyphl.tex",
 	# It is allowed to leave one character at the end of the row.
 	# However, if you think that it is graphicaly not very
-	# pleasent these patterns will work well with \lefthyphenmin=2.
+	# pleasant these patterns will work well with \lefthyphenmin=2.
 	# \lefthyphenmin=1 \righthyphenmin=2
 	"hyphenmin" => [2,2],
 	"encoding" => "ec",
@@ -1040,10 +1534,11 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	# for both scripts
 	"description_s" => "Serbian hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Serbian language in UTF-8 and 8-bit variant.",
-		"For 8-bit TeX the patterns are available separately as 'serbian' in",
-		"T1/EC encoding for Latin script and 'serbianc' in T2A encoding for",
-		"Cyrillic script. UTF-8 engines should only use 'serbian'",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Serbian in T1/EC, T2A and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"For 8-bit engines the patterns are available separately as 'serbian'",
+		"in T1/EC encoding for Latin script and 'serbianc' in T2A encoding for",
+		"Cyrillic script. Unicode engines should only use 'serbian'",
 		"which has patterns in both scripts combined.",
 	],
 },
@@ -1080,9 +1575,10 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	# for both
 	"description_s" => "Mongolian hyphenation patterns in Cyrillic script",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Mongolian language in T2A, LMC and UTF-8 encoding.",
-		"LMC encoding is used in MonTeX. The package includes two sets of patterns",
-		"that will hopefully be merged in future.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Mongolian in T2A, LMC and UTF-8 encodings.",
+		"LMC encoding is used in MonTeX. The package includes two sets of",
+		"patterns that will hopefully be merged in future.",
 	],
 },
 # mongolianlmc	xu-mnhyph.tex (used to be mongolian)
@@ -1097,7 +1593,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Mongolian hyphenation patterns",
 },
-# bulgarian	xu-bghyphen.tex
+# bulgarian
 {
 	"code" => "bg",
 	"name" => "bulgarian",
@@ -1116,7 +1612,8 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LPPL",
 	"description_s" => "Bulgarian hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Bulgarian language in T2A and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Bulgarian in T2A and UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # sanskrit
@@ -1125,8 +1622,8 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"name" => "sanskrit",
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
-	"hyphenmin" => [1,5], # polyglosia
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"hyphenmin" => [1,5], # polyglossia
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Sanskrit hyphenation patterns (v0.4, 2010/02/26)",
 
@@ -1137,6 +1634,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => nil,
 	"description_s" => "Sanskrit hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
 		"Hyphenation patterns for Sanskrit and Prakrit in transliteration,",
 		"and in Devanagari, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu scripts",
 		"for Unicode engines.",
@@ -1171,7 +1669,9 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "free", # TODO
 	"description_s" => "Norwegian Bokmal and Nynorsk hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Norwegian Bokmal and Nynorsk in T1/EC and UTF-8 encoding.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Norwegian Bokmal and Nynorsk in T1/EC and",
+		"UTF-8 encodings.",
 	],
 },
 # nynorsk
@@ -1193,9 +1693,9 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
-	"message" => "Assameze hyphenation patterns",
+	"message" => "Assamese hyphenation patterns",
 
 	# this is true for all Indic patterns
 	"version"       => "0.5.3",
@@ -1205,9 +1705,10 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"licence"       => "LGPL",
 	"description_s" => "Indic hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
-		"Hyphenation patterns for Assameze, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi,",
-		"Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Tamil and Telugu",
-		"for Unicode engines.",
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,",
+		"Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Tamil and Telugu for Unicode",
+		"engines.",
 	],
 },
 # bengali
@@ -1217,7 +1718,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Bengali hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1228,7 +1729,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Gujarati hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1239,7 +1740,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Hindi hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1250,7 +1751,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Kannada hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1261,7 +1762,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Malayalam hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1272,7 +1773,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Marathi hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1283,7 +1784,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Oriya hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1294,7 +1795,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Panjabi hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1305,7 +1806,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Tamil hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1316,7 +1817,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Telugu hyphenation patterns",
 },
@@ -1327,7 +1828,7 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1], # TODO
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Lao hyphenation patterns",
 
@@ -1335,24 +1836,36 @@ class Languages < Hash
 	"last_modified" => "2010-05-19",
 	"type"          => "rules",
 	"authors"       => [ "brian_wilson", "arthur_reutenauer", "mojca_miklavec" ],
-	"licence"       => nil, # TODO
+	"licence"       => "other-free",
 	"description_s" => "Lao hyphenation patterns",
 	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
 		"Hyphenation patterns for Lao language for Unicode engines.",
 		"Current version is experimental and gives bad results.",
-		"Please wait for a new version.",
 	],
 },
 # pan-Ethiopic
 {
 	"code" => "mul-ethi",
 	"name" => "ethiopic", "synonyms" => ["amharic", "geez"],
+	"version" => nil,
+	"last_modified" => "2011-01-10",
+	"authors" => ["arthur_reutenauer", "mojca_miklavec"],
+	"licence" => "public-ask", # TODO
 	"use_new_loader" => true,
 	"use_old_patterns" => false,
 	"hyphenmin" => [1,1],
-	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit TeX
+	"encoding" => nil, # no patterns for 8-bit engines
 	"exceptions" => false,
 	"message" => "Pan-Ethiopic hyphenation patterns",
+	"description_s" => "Hyphenation patterns for Ethiopic scripts",
+	"description_l" => [
+		#......................................................................#
+		"Hyphenation patterns for languages written using the Ethiopic script",
+		"for Unicode engines. They are not supposed to be linguistically",
+		"relevant in all cases and should, for proper typography, be replaced",
+		"by files tailored to individual languages.",
+	],
 },
 # dumylang -> dumyhyph.tex
 # nohyphenation -> zerohyph.tex