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The hyphenation algorithm, I guess, needs some knowledge of the language. Probably a lot more issues as well.

Currently works perfectly for me with English and German where I place \selectlanguage{UKenglish} and \selectlanguage{ngerman} in front of the appropriate paragraphs. Hyphenation then simply works.

> Currently works perfectly for me with English and German

Both fit neatly into the same codepage, latin-1, so no possible conflicts there

> I place \selectlanguage{UKenglish} and \selectlanguage{ngerman} in front of the appropriate paragraphs

What about mixing two languages within the same paragraph? \selectlanguage before and after each word?

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