[bug #59397] Assign default .hcode values to alphabetic characters in groff's default character set

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #59397 (project groff):

[comment #2 comment #2:]
> So the example should be
> 
> 
> .hcode \['e] \['e]
> 

This is not valid syntax:


$ echo ".hcode \['e] \['e]" | groff -Wall
troff: backtrace: file '<standard input>':1
troff: <standard input>:1: error: hyphenation code must be ordinary character


as documented in the info manual: "A hyphenation code must be a single input
character (not a special character)."  Bug #42870 (referenced in comment #0)
seeks to remedy this limitation.

Putting a literal Latin-1 é in place of the second \['e] does work, however.

Correcting the syntax is the easy part, though; I don't yet have good answers
to the conceptual questions Branden raises in comment #3.

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