What’s new in babel 3.99

2023-12-10

Fix

Spurious space in some cases because of a missing %, a bug introduced in 3.98.

New locales

There are two new locales: chakma and lowgerman.

In addition, the following bare minimum locales have been added:

• aramaic
• avestan
• aymara
• bashkir
• bataktoba
• bavarian
• classicalmandaic
• ingush
• komi
• lepcha
• limbu
• lineara
• lu
• makasar
• samaritan
• sinteromani
• tainua
• tangut
• waray

Most scripts in the Unicode basic plane are now covered with, at least, a minimal locale.

Here is a sample, with lualatex and the Noto family:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[bidi=basic]{babel}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Renderer=Harfbuzz}
\babelfont{rm}{NotoSerif-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[chakma]{rm}{NotoSansChakma-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[samaritan]{rm}{NotoSansSamaritan-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[lepcha]{rm}{NotoSansLepcha-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[lu]{rm}{NotoSansNewTaiLue-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[tangut]{rm}{NotoSerifTangut-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[aramaic]{rm}{NotoSansImperialAramaic-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[avestan]{rm}{NotoSansAvestan-Regular.otf}
\babelfont[bataktoba]{rm}{NotoSansBatak-Regular.otf}

\newcommand{\showname}[1]{%
  \par\texttt{#1}:
  \foreignlanguage{#1}{%
    \getlocaleproperty\result{#1}{identification/name.local}%
    \result}}

\begin{document}

\showname{chakma}
\showname{samaritan}
\showname{lepcha}
\showname{bashkir}
\showname{lu}
\showname{tangut}
\showname{aramaic}
\showname{avestan}
\showname{bataktoba}

\end{document}