[XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Pander wrote:

> On 2011-09-21 13:58, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> >> 2011/9/21 Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com>:
> >>> Hello,
> >>
> >> See the previous thread open by Alex Hamann
> > 
> > Thanks for your prompt response. I am unable to locate a recent and relevant 
> > thread started by Alex Hamann. 
> > 
> > Vafa's suggestion of loading xkeyval before polyglossia reduces the number of 
> > errors drastically but brings up new ones related to exaccent, which I load 
> > after xkeyval and polyglossia.
> 
> Perhaps both packages should generate a warning if they detect a
> usepackage order which is dangerous?

You are quoting *three* packages (xkeyval, polyglossia, exaccent),
which of them do you mean with *both*?
It is a bug in polyglossia that xkeyval has to be loaded manually
before polyglossia, because polyglossia has
forgotten \RequirePackage{xkeyval}.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek