CTAN update: babel

[CTAN Announcements]

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the

                     babel

package.

Version:  3.77 2022-06-26
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX

Announcement text:
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 Changes in version 3.77 are described in:

 https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.77.html

 Here is a summary:

 * More on calendar conversions (\localedate, \today).

 * New calendars: 'coptic' (ar-EG, cop), 'buddhist' (th).

 * New Arabic locale for Saudi Arabia, with the Umm al-Qura
   calendar.

 * Date now defaults to 'persian' in a few locales: Persian,
   Northern Luri, Mazanderani, Pashto.

 * 'bangla' is now the preferred name for 'bengali'.

 * Attempt to deal with 'german' and 'swissgerman', whose names
   conflict with the CLDR ones.

 * More minor updates to the CLDR 41: Afrikaans, Arabic, Assamese,
   Asturian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bangla, Tibetan,
   Breton, Bodo, Bosnian, Catalan, English.

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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
   https://mirrors.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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