Reinhard,

> Babel pretends that all these patterns are loaded already but in truth
> only those actually needed are loaded at run-time.  Hence the message
> is misleading.

Yes, it is.

> I suppose that the number of supported languages is determined when
> the format file is built.  If it's possible to detect on which engine
> babel is running, maybe the word "loaded" can be replaced with
> "available" when appropriate.

I'm currently working on a revamped loader for luatex, which will
load, well, nothing (except english), not even the information in
language.dat.lua, because the format doesn't need it at all.

Javier

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