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## Babel 3.51

This package manages culturally-determined typographical (and other)
rules, and hyphenation patterns for a wide range of languages.  Many
language styles work with pdflatex, as well as with xelatex and
lualatex out of the box.  A few even work with plain formats.

The latest stable version is available on <https://ctan.org/pkg/babel>.

Changes in version 3.51 are described in:

https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.51

Included is a set of ini files for about 250 languages. 

The best way to install and/or update it is with the help of package
managers.

### Reporting Bugs

If you wish to report a problem or bug in any of these packages please
use the
[Issue Tracker for LaTeX2e on GitHub](https://github.com/latex3/babel/issues)
and follow the guidelines that pop up if you press the `New issue`
button.

In particular, to check that you are really seeing a bug, please write
a short, self-contained document that shows the problem. This should
include the `latexbug` package, which will warn if your test file is
not suitable for one or the other reason. See the
[CONTRIBUTING guide](https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
for further details, or if you need to obtain the `latexbug` package.

If the bug turns out to be with third-party software then please
contact the developer, and not us!

You may also report them to the current maintainer more informally on:

   http://www.texnia.com/contact.html

Bugs related to specific languages are best reported to their
respective authors.

### Latest changes
```
3.51   2020-10-27
       - Common interface to (re)define captions (with
         \setlocalecaption).
       - frenchspacing filled in many ini files.
       - A new internal macro (for ldf files) named \babel@texpdf, to
         ease interoperativity with hyperref in shorthands.
       - Fixes:
         - Error when loading a language on the fly in tabular (#97).
         - 'hyphenrules' raised an error with 'base' option (#59).
         - Better handling of autoloaded languages (eg, catcodes).
         - An error was raised with CJK and a null font (#99).
         - language.tag.bcp47 and tag.ini in \localeinfo didn't work
           (#102).

3.50   2020-10-06
       - Fixes:
         - main=<language> stopped working in some cases (#96).
         - Footnotes were not \long with layout=footnotes.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.50

3.49   2020-10-03
       - BUG. This version has a severe bug with main= (fixed in 3.50).
       - Allow standard LaTeX syntax to recognize locales based on ini
         files in the most common cases.
       - frenchspacing is set with ini files.
       - Fixes:
         - layout.lists=off didn't work (#94)
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.49

3.48   2020-09-01
       - New (tentative) tools to customize some labels (like chapters
         in CJK and Hungarian). 
       - Warning instead of error if neither 0 nor ZERO WIDTH SPACE is
         found in some Southeast Asian languages.
       - Fixes:
         - \babelshorthand didn't work with some dialects (#91).
         - \selectlanguage and otherlanguage raised an error inside
           tabular.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.48       

3.47   2020-07-13
       - Fixes:
         - Spurious spaces when autoloading locales (bug introduced
           in 3.46 when fixing #80).
         - In dtx files, autoloading printed some spurious text
           (because % is set to ignore, #87).
       - New - \getlocaleproperty*, which doesn't raise an error.
       - Basic ini+tex templates for about 500 languages in the GitHub
         repository.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.47

3.46   2020-07-06
       - Languages can now be optionally selected with their BCP 47
         tags.
       - \BabelEnsureInfo now loads the basic data for the requested
         languages immediately (formerly it was done at the end of the
         preamble).
       - Fixes:
         - Getting rid of the hyphen in XeTeX was not working as
           expected. A new procedure has been devised.
         - tag.bcp47 now contains what its name promises, instead of
           just the language subtag (#70).
         - Locale info was not loaded if the name had uppercase letters
           in some OSs (#80).
         - The [..|..] syntax in ini dates didn't recognize 'digits'.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.46

3.45   2020-06-10
       - Minor fixes in Hindi, Ancient Greek, Macedonian.
       - Improvements in Kurdish, Marathi.
       - Alternative date formats with \localedate[calendar=...,
         variant=...]{y}{m}{d} (note: no calendar computations, just
         strings).
       - \today is (again) case-aware.
       - \localenumeral{digits}{..} and \localecounter{digits}{cntr}
         for native digits.
       - Fixes
         - Improved handling of math with \babelposthyphenation and
           \babelprehyphenation (it was ignoring too much).
         - An error related to \bbl@foreign@x could be raised in some
           rare cases.
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.45

3.44   2020-05-13
       - WARNING. If you need the Portuguese style you must update
         babel-portuges.
       - \localedate, to print date with the current locale.
       - [|] syntax in dates, to represent a value with any counter
         defined in the ini files.
       - Amharic: line breaking (modern and traditional), counters.
       - Improvements in French, Portuguese.
       - Optional argument in \foreignlanguage and otherlanguage*,
         to switch date and/or captions.
       - Preliminary code for \babelprehyphenation.
       - Fixes:
         - \babelcharproperty{..}{linebreak]{..} raised an error.
         - \babelposthyphenation raised an error if the last char in
           the pattern was ].       
         - \babelposthyphenation is now deativated in math.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.44

3.43   2020-04-28
       - Autoloading based on the BCP47 codes, with basic lookup.
       - Now only a few essential commands are loaded in the format.
       - Improvements in Assamese, Luxembourgish, Marathi, Armenian,
         Bengali, and Finnish.
       - First steps in the removal of switch.def and plain.def.
       - Fixes:
         - Babel reset the \sfcode of » to 1000. It should be 0.
         - \guillemotleft and \guillemotleft renamed to \guillemetleft
           and \guillemetleft (#63).
         - A couple of bugs related to autoloading.
https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.43

3.42   2020-03-22
       - \getlocaleproperty, to get the value of a field from the loaded
         ini files.
       - Added ini files for Syriac, Coptic and Church Slavic. Improved
         some others (Armenian, Sanskrit).
       - Added a new field tag.bcp47.likely to many files.
       - Improved line breaking with xetex.
       - Fixes:
         - Remove extra space with languages loaded on the fly (bug
           introduced in 3.41).
         - Line breaking was no always correct with languages loaded on
           the fly.
         - Avoid a harmless warning about redefining a protected command
           (#52). 
         - Locale was not switched correctly with COMBINING characters
           (#54).
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.42

3.41   2020-02-27
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.41

3.40   2020-02-14
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.40

3.39   2020-02-03
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.39

3.38   2020-01-15
See https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.38
```

Javier Bezos