Bug#315839: babel support for vietnamese?
> a user of our Debian teTeX packages (which are still 2.0.2 in
> unstable) asked about the TeX support of vietnamese. It seems there
> is one file already [...]
>
> Of course, this file is also in teTeX 3.0 which is currently only in
> Debian experimental.
Right now we are preparing a new VnTeX package to be included in the
next TeXLive release. Have a look at vntex.sf.net for beta versions
-- testers welcome!
> But why isn't it in the babel directory?
Because it's not part of the Babel package.
> And can one call \usepackage[vietnamese]{babel} anyway?
Actually, it is
\usepackage[vietnam]{babel}
Werner
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