[tex-live] Bug#750057: Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Robin,

> if the switch is set to "ancient", it sets june and july with an "old"
> cyrillic "i", but if the switch is set to modern, it uses the soft "i"

Yes, and my *whole* email was about that the test for this switch
seems to be up-side-down.

> (transcribed, iirc, as "yi").  the document that's had trouble
> presumably has the command
> 
>   \languageattribute{russian}{ancient}

No, you missed the point!!! The minimal document is fully included here, 
and does *NOT* include the languageattribute call:


> > \documentclass[12pt,russian]{article}
> > \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
> > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> > \usepackage{babel}
> > \begin{document}
> > \today
> > \end{document}

In contrast, *ADDING*
	\languageattribute{russian}{ancient}
switches to *modern* way of writing.

Norbert

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