[XeTeX] Hyphenation in XeTeX polyglossia

[Axel E. Retif]

On  17 May, 2009, at 04:54, Bogdan Burlacu wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting hyphenation to work, using TexLive 2008
> ("vanilla" install using the texlive installer).
>
> I checked language.dat and it appears to be ok [...]

I don't know really know Xe(La)TeX ---and I don't speak Romanian---,  
but for what I see polyglossia uses its special file gloss- 
romanian.ldf (inside
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia).

I copy-pasted a paragraph from Wikipedia and this typesets OK for me:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[romanian]{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Hoefler Text}
\setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans}
\setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Andale Mono}
\begin{document}
Limba română este vorbită în toată lumea de aproximativ 26 de  
milioane de persoane. Dintre acestea, 20 de milioane se află în  
România (unde româna, respectiv dialectul supranumit dacoromân este  
limbă oficială şi, conform datelor din 2002, limbă maternă pentru  
peste 90\% din populaţie).
\end{document}

Can you tell the people on this list what platform are you using and  
when was the last time you updated your TeX Live distribution?

Also, a minimal non-working example with its log file might be useful.

Best,

Axel