[XeTeX] xelatex + babel and / or polyglossia for Japanese

[François Charette]

Forgot to react to this:
> The file gloss-japanese.ldf is found and loaded, there is a message from polylossia about missing hyphenation patterns, and then for some reason METAFONT is called to make a font named '', which fails. 
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> I think it has something to do with the \japanesefont setting in gloss-japanese.ldf but I would appreciate advise from an expert on how to solve this. I am getting a bit confused with all the settings in all the files (xetex setting, fontspec settings, polyglossia settings...).
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I will have a look, but in the meanwhile you may want to try again with
polyglossia v1.1.0 (it should be on CTAN by now).

FC