[texhax] Hyphenation questions

[Natércia Fernandes]

Hi Barbara,

On Thursday, February 02, 2012, Barbara Beeton wrote:
> simple.  using plain tex from the command line:
> 
>   tex
>   **\relax
>   *\showhyphens{swimmingly}

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?

Thanks a lot,
Natércia