[tex-live] serious `slovak' Babel bug
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Mon Jan 4 08:50:51 CET 2010
Folks,
is it useful today to report Babel bugs to the LaTeX bug database? Does
anybody take care of answering them or even fixing issues?
Here's a quite serious bug:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[slovak,USenglish]{babel}
\begin{document}
^^78
\end{document}
===>
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.7 ^
^78
?
It might be acceptable that the ^^xx notation fails within a Slovakian
language environment since the circumflex has been made a shorthand,
but this is not the case here.
Note that the `esperanto' and `kurmanji' language modules fail
similarly. Especially in the light of the recent discussion of using
the ^^xx notation instead of `real' 8bit character codes it's quite
important IMHO to fix this problem.
[A CJK user reported this issue to me. For the CJK package, which
heavily relies on ^^xx working correctly, a workaround is to insert
\catcode`\^ 7\relax
right before starting a CJK environment.]
Werner
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