[texhax] Hyphenation questions

[Philip TAYLOR]

Something like this, Natércia :

	C:\Documents and Settings\*************>xetex
	This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010)
	 restricted \write18 enabled.
	**\uselanguage {portuguese}
	entering extended mode
	
	*\showhyphens {natércia}

> And if the word you want to test isn't english?  I tried several (portuguese)
> words, but apparently it is trying to use the english way of hyphenating not
> the portuguese one.  How should I indicate that I wanted portuguese
> hyphenation?

Philip Taylor