New on CTAN: tex-locale

[CTAN Announcements]

Nicola Talbot submitted the

                tex-locale

package.

Version:  1.0 2018-08-26
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Localisation support for TeX and LaTeX documents

Announcement text:
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 This package uses both tracklang and texosquery to look
 up the locale information from the operating system and
 provide commands that can access locale-dependent infor-
 mation, such as the currency symbol and decimal separator.
 The file tex-locale.tex provides generic TeX code.

 The LaTeX package tex-locale.sty can additionally load
 babel or polyglossia with the locale's language setting,
 as well as various other packages such as fontspec
 (XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX) or fontenc + inputenc (PDFLaTeX).

 LaTeX example:

   \documentclass{article}
   \usepackage{tex-locale}
   \begin{document}
   Today: \CurrentLocaleShortDate.
   Currency: \CurrentLocaleCurrency.
   \end{document}

 TeX example:

   \input tex-locale
   Today: \CurrentLocaleShortDate.
   Currency: \CurrentLocaleCurrency.
   \bye

 Note that texosquery requires the Java Runtime Environment.
 See the texosquery documentation for setup instructions.
 If you can't use TeX's piped shell escape, see the tex-locale
 documentation for an alternative method.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-locale

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/tex-locale/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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