Bug Tracker 
| ID | 300🔗 |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2025-04-02 14:00:12 |
| Last update: | 2025-04-02 15:01:43 |
| Status | Closed (Not a Bug) |
| Category | datatool |
| Version | 3.3 |
| Summary | Locale ngerman not supported anymore |
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Description
The following MWE causes a warning with all versions after v2.32:\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\GlsSetQuote{+}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{rna}{%
name=ribonukleinsäure,%
sort={ribonukleins"aure},%
description={eine Nukleinsäure}%
}
\begin{document}
\gls{rna}
\printglossaries
\end{document}
The MWE could be found in the documentation of package glossaries.The warning is:
Package tracklang Warning: No `datatool' support for dialect `ngerman' on input line 9908.\usepackage{glossaries}: \usepackage{datatool}[=v2.32]The MWE reads then as follows:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{datatool}[=v2.32]
\usepackage{glossaries}
\GlsSetQuote{+}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{rna}{%
name=ribonukleinsäure,%
sort={ribonukleins"aure},%
description={eine Nukleinsäure}%
}
\begin{document}
\gls{rna}
\printglossaries
\end{document}
MWE
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\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\GlsSetQuote{+}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{rna}{%
name=ribonukleinsäure,%
sort={ribonukleins"aure},%
description={eine Nukleinsäure}%
}
\begin{document}
\gls{rna}
\printglossaries
\end{document}
Evaluation
This isn't a bug. There was no warning with older versions of datatool because there was no datatool localisation support prior to version 3.0.
The glossaries package still supports ngerman. The supplied log file shows that glossaries-german.ldf has been loaded:
glossaries-german.ldf 2014/11/23 v1.0Also the aux file has:
\@gls@extramakeindexopts{-g}
which indicates that makeindex should employ German ordering, so the glossaries package localisation is working correctly.
There is currently only a limited number of datatool localisation files available. This doesn't affect \printglossary (or \printglossaries) as neither of those commands use datatool localisation. (The datatool-base package provides functions used by \printnoidxglossary, which previously only provided character code ordering.)
You can suppress the warning by passing lang-warn=false to datatool-base. For example:
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[lang-warn=false]{datatool-base}
\usepackage{glossaries}
or
\PassOptionsToPackage{lang-warn=false}{datatool-base}
Comments
2 comments.
Date: 2025-04-02 15:01:43
Repying to: anonymous 2025-04-02 14:57:35
And someone else may load datatool explicitly with requested localisation support and will says it's a bug that they're not warned there's no support.
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Date: 2025-04-02 14:57:35
I am sorry, I still think that this is a bug. The package datatool won't be called explicitly, it will be called implicitly by the package glossaries only. A new version of the package datatool has been released, and this new version causes that the package glossaries behaves different. This should not be the case.