[tex-live] [XeTeX] XeTeX/TeX Live : Setting the default language

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:16:21PM +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:52:37AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> 
> > Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > 
> > >Now imagine that you send your document to a friend to make some final
> > >corrections&  submit PDF for printing ... and that friend has set
> > >French or Russian as his default/preferred language, so the printing
> > >house will print the document typeset with Russian hyphenation
> > >patterns. Wouldn't that be nice?
> > 
> > A document for export can contain Khaled's recommended :
> > 
> > 	\uselanguage {<whatever>}
> > 
> > A document solely for internal use does not require one,
> > nor should one need to be added : the installer should
> > ask the user whether it should respect his or her regional
> > settings ("locale", in Unix-speak, I believe).
> 
> And if the British author visits Germany he happily uses
> 
>   \BenutzedieSprache{Englisch}
> 
> No, wait, without spaces???
> 
>   \Befehlsnamensstart Benutze die Sprache\Befehlsnamenende{Englisch}
> 
> ;-))

ConTeXt had such localised interfaces since day zero I think, and it
continues to have now, so I don't think it is a problem, though I don't
see how this is related to the issue Philip is raising.

Regards,
 Khaled