Re: ox-latex language handling in Org-9.5 vs 9.6

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Max Nikulin writes:
>
>> I consider the following as an issue rather close to the discussion in 
>> the thread
>> Juan Manuel Macías. Fallback fonts in LaTeX export for non latin 
>> scripts. Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:25:53 +0000.
>> https://list.orgmode.org/878r9t7x7y.fsf@posteo.net
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1042450
>> elpa-org: #+LANGUAGE: de-de is not working in LaTeX export. Debian Bug 
>> report logs
>>
>> I am unsure if the change was intentional.
>
> I seem to remember that when I made org-latex-language-alist I made some
> corrections to a few language codes. I was guided by page 19 of the
> Babel manual and by
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

> In both lists the language code for German is simply "de". Of course,
> I'm no expert on the subject, so if I'm wrong in this case, I should
> revert the change. I understand that de-de is German of Germany (="de"?); on
> org-latex-language-alist exists de-at (Austrian German). The babel ini
> file for german babel/locale/de/babel-de.ini has this id:

I understand the motivation, but the end result is a clear regression.
May you please review 97cfb959d and recover the removed language names
to put into #+language as aliases to their correct names?

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