Section 2.10 International Language Support

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Presenting Polyglossia as a successor for the "venerable" Babel is unfair. An `urban legend' (coming from the early 2010 when Johannes Braams no longer maintained Babel) says that babel is not for not XeTeX/LuaTeX. In 2013, Javier Bezos took over the maintenance and did a really good job. Babel now works perfectly for LuaTeX/XeTeX and provides far better support for some languages (French Spanish, f.i. ;-).

Of course, my opinion as babel-french maintainer may be biased but please have a look at what Ulrike Fisher (f.i.) writes on StacKExchange about babel/polyglossia.

-- Daniel Flipo