[XeTeX] Polyglossia 1.0.2: babelshorthands broken?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote:

> Hi,
> get same results (TeXLive 2008, all available updates via
> TeXLiveUtility, but don't know the polyglossia-version used, b.t.w.
> how would I find out- I am on a Mac with OSX 10.5.6)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rolf
> ...

Howdy,

Ran into the same error. With polyglossia 2009/01/25 v1.0.2 (i.e., it  
was just updated today). The full output is:

This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7)
  \write18 enabled.
  %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
dumylang, noh
yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,  
ibycus, ar
abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
italian, la
tin, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish,  
portuguese, r
omanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish,  
swedish, turki
sh, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/minimal.cls
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/ 
polyglossia.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd))
fontspec.cfg loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/gloss- 
german.ldf)
No file test.aux.
! Missing { inserted.
<to be read again>
                    „
l.8 \begin{document}

?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)