[tex-live] Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes

[Javier Bezos]

Norbert,

Thank you for your report.

> I got a bug report here at Debian, but it is the same in the
> current TL2014 status. It seems that something with the
> language attributes is up-side-down:
.....
 > So it seems to me that there is something - a test - turned
 > around.
 >

Indeed, it is, but you should contact the maintainer of russian.

Cheers
Javier

>
> The report states that
> 	\today
> prints the wrong month for June in Russian. It should be
> 	"июнь" (cyrillic "i" at the first position)
> but comes out as
> 	"iюнь" (latin "i" followed by cyrillic "юнь")
>
> The input file is trivial:
> \documentclass[12pt,russian]{article}
> \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{babel}
> \begin{document}
> \today
> \end{document}
>
> (with or without the inputenc, I tried both!)
>
>
> Reading a bit through russian.ldf I see that the printed version
> is related to the "ancient" variant of Russian.
>
> So I tried
> ...
> \usepackage{babel}
> \languageattribute{russian}{ancient}
> ...
>
> and voila, the June comes out as expected in all cyrillic.
>

> I am not sure whether Karl considers this a show-stopper, but
> considering how core babel is that would be a good reason for me.
>
> Please try to keep the Debian bug report in Cc, if possible.
>
> All the best
>
> Norbert
>
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