> as far as I undestand the documentation hyphenation for syllables with > german umlauts works only if the umlaut is directly written into the > ASCII file (i.e. must be ä and not \(:a or \[:a]).
This is true for the file containing hyphenation patterns, but not for
normal text.
Regarding `Wässerchen': It is possible that this word wasn't in the
original word list used to create the hyphenation pattern, which might
explain missing hyphenation. However, I haven't tested that by
myself.
Werner
