UKenglish hyphenation patterns don't work with babel

Hi dear TeX Live Team, especially the babel masters,

on Ubuntu the following bug was filed:

On Mi, 18 Jun 2008, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> After having installed "texlive-lang-ukenglish", I had to change the
> file /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.dat in the
> following way:
>
> ukenglish ukhyphen.tex
> =british
> =UKenglish
>
> I had to append the last two lines. Otherwise, babel wouldn't switch to
> UK hyphenation patterns properly because it doesn't know "ukenglish" but
> only "british" and UKenglish".

Is this still true? Does babel expect british or UKenglish?

That would effect TL2008, too!!

Thanks for any comments!

Best wishes

Norbert

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On a fresh intrepid install (not an update), I get this:
test.tex:0: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for(babel) the language `French'(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

Looks like hyphenation is fully broken on intrepid.

sudo update-language
sudo fmtutil-sys --all

do not help.

I hope that there is an easy fix/workaroud because latex without hyphenation is something not really usable.

Xavier

Oups sorry for the noise.
Please ignore my last comment.

I can confirm this bug also for "texlive-lang-spanish" in Ubuntu 8.10
    texlive-base: 2007.dfsg.1-2
    texlive-lang-spanish: 2007.dfsg.3-2

The relevant part of /etc/texmf/language.d/10texlive-lang-spanish.cnf
spanish xu-eshyph.tex
=espanol
catalan cahyph.tex
galician xu-glhyph.tex

Can anyone give us an update? What's going on with this problem?
Is there a workaround to manually set the hyphenation patterns?

I just had to reinstall texlive-lang-spanish. I works perfectly now.

\usepackage[english]{babel} works
\usepackage[english,british]{babel} works
\usepackage[english,british,UKenglish]{babel} works

Other combinations - just british or just UKenglish do not work. I don't know what the expected and correct behavior.

Fix your latex documents????

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, I reinstalled "texlive-lang-spanish" and it didn't seem to work either.

But weeks later I manually ran

    sudo fmtutil --all

and now it works fine.

I say there are some bugs with the Debian scripts that are run when installing the "texlive-*" packages, but I guess not many people can confirm it.

Since this bug hasn't had much activity I guess it may be a non-issue after all.

Besides, Texlive 2008 is already out, and with the new package manager things may be different from now on.

Just to confirm what user vocx says. I've had the same problem and spanish hyphen was not loaded after having installed texlive-lang-spanish. After running sudo fmtutil --all works fine and loads spanish and catalan :). What is surprising is that MiKTeX for Win Vista does have the same problem.

Same:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) the language `Magyar'
(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

And 'sudo fmtutil --all' isn't helped me...

Sorry, My fault. Now work.
Bye.

Had the same issue with Swedish. Running
sudo aptitude install texlive-lang-swedish
and then
sudo fmtutil --all
does seem to do the trick, however I'd still consider this a bug... Thanks jordilin for the tip! :)

I confim Anna's fix for texlive-lang-italian, and I confirm it's still a bug...