The problem : Given a string (which can be in different language) we have to hyphenate it.
What i tried : hypenator-j but this seems to be working only for English, I'm not sure how to hyphenate other languages, couldn't find free tex files for different languages.
What options do we have for solving hyphenation for different languages in java?
The implementation of the hyphenator-j or of a forked variant is able to use the original .tex hyphenation tables.
This tables can either be found
MiKTeX. In this case, the .tex hyphenation tables can be found in \tex\generic\hyphenOnce you obtained the .tex of your interest, you can load them using the API provided by hyphenator-j.
Given enough time and willpower you could implement hyphenation yourself based on this thesis for example http://www.tug.org/docs/liang/. Implementing hyphenation yourself is not an easy task though, so you might want to opt for alternate solutions.
Yes, this is a javascript project. However it is possible to call javascript functions from java. You can find more information of this here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/scripting/programmer_guide/index.html.
This offers support for a wide variety of languages.
Many dictionaries offer hyphenation rules. You can find these online though it will involve some searching. Next you can scrape these for the hyphenation rules, but this might be an uglier workaround than calling javascript from Java.
Either way, hyphenation is not an easy problem, implementing it yourself seems like quite an annoying task so maybe the javascript project is your best bet. OR, you could implement your own Java implementation based on hyphenator.js. At least you would not start from scratch then.
