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= Two commands to set up the language aspects=
 
= Two commands to set up the language aspects=
Today, with the international use of the UTF-8 standard for input and output encoding, you only need two commands and the '''[[#Language tags|language tag]]''' you want in brackets:
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Today, with the international use of the UTF-8 standard for input and output encoding, you only need two commands, with the '''[[#Language tags|language tag]]''' you want in brackets:
 
; <cmd>mainlanguage</cmd>: to set the language of auto-generated language elements, like the title of the table of contents or the appendix.  
 
; <cmd>mainlanguage</cmd>: to set the language of auto-generated language elements, like the title of the table of contents or the appendix.  
 
; <cmd>language</cmd>: to change the hyphenation rules, quotation marks, all that sort of thing, to that of a different language. (The default language is English.)
 
; <cmd>language</cmd>: to change the hyphenation rules, quotation marks, all that sort of thing, to that of a different language. (The default language is English.)

Revision as of 15:14, 7 June 2020

Two commands to set up the language aspects

Today, with the international use of the UTF-8 standard for input and output encoding, you only need two commands, with the language tag you want in brackets:

\mainlanguage
to set the language of auto-generated language elements, like the title of the table of contents or the appendix.
\language
to change the hyphenation rules, quotation marks, all that sort of thing, to that of a different language. (The default language is English.)

Language-specific pages

Language tags

Here's the list of ConTeXt's language tags, also available in the latest official Languages manual. Sources are available).

\usemodule[languages-system]
\loadinstalledlanguages
\showinstalledlanguages

Other links

Finally, for older content, we keep a page Encodings and Regimes - Old Content about including accents, composite characters, and how "ä" and alike were produced in LaTeX/ConTeXt mkii. Second Step gave an example for german language.