What’s new in babel 25.18

2025-12-30

Changes in ‘ini’ locale files

Swiss German

There are two new locales for Swiss German, namely, alemannic and alsatian. Remember the name swissgerman is temporarily assigned by default to Swiss High German with traditional ortography (de-CH-1901). See What’s new in babel 25.17.

alemannic is basically the same as swissgerman (gsw), and it’s a alternative name provided by the IANA (BCP 47) registry.

Another name is alsatian, also in the IANA registry, but the common tag for it is gsw-FR. There isn’t a standardized form of Alsatian.

Belarusian

Added an ini file for taraškievica, with contributions by @375gnu. The name is belarusian-taraskievica. There are also some fixes in the standard variant.

Breton

Fixes contributed by Alan Kersaudy.