CTAN Update: babel

[CTAN Announcements]

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                babel

package.

Version:  3.39 2020-02-03
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX

Announcement text:
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 Changes are described in:

 https://github.com/latex3/babel/wiki/What's-new-in-babel-3.39

 Here is a summary:

 - Languages can now be loaded on the fly (via \babelprovide).
 - With \babelposthyphenation captured chars can now be mapped in
   the replacement (lua).
 - \babelcharproperty can be used to assign specific chars to a
   locale (lua).
 - Fixes:
    - Sichuan Yi: line breaking was not activated (lua).
    - Hyphenation was not always applied with onchar (lua).
    - bidi=basic-l/basic-r where not activated correctly (xe).
    - Thai and turkish raised and error without import in
      \babelprovide.
    - Cleaned up some ini/tex locale files (de, zh, sa).

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

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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