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docs/guides/list-of-counters.md

@@ -245,7 +245,8 @@ The way the keraia is defined is tentative, and very likely it will change. Do *
 
 ## he
 
-There are some additional counters defined in `babel-hebrew.tex`.
+There are some additional counters defined in `babel-hebrew.tex`,
+namely `letters.long`, `letters.gershayim` and `letters.final`.
 
 * `letters.1` = א ב ג  ד  ה ו  ז  ח ט
 * `letters.2` = י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ
@@ -461,6 +462,9 @@ Tentative.
 
 ## yi
 
+There are some additional counters defined in `babel-hebrew.tex` and
+loaded by Yiddish, namely `letters.long`, `letters.gershayim` and `letters.final`.
+
 * `letters.1` = א ב ג  ד  ה ו  ז  ח ט
 * `letters.2` = י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ
 * `letters.F.15` = טו
@@ -543,6 +547,9 @@ Tentative.
 
 ## zh
 
+Also available in all `zh` locales is `date.sexagenary`, defined in
+`babel-chinese.tex` and used in the Chinese calendar.
+
 * `cjk-earthly-branch` = 子 丑 寅 卯 辰 巳 午 未 申 酉 戌 亥
 * `cjk-heavenly-stem` = 甲 乙 丙 丁 戊 己 庚 辛 壬 癸
 * `circled.ideograph` = ㊀ ㊁ ㊂ ㊃ ㊄ ㊅ ㊆ ㊇ ㊈ ㊉

docs/index.md

@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ case, it's advisable to install TeXLive.)
 
 | Version | Most relevant changes
 | --- | --- |
-| [3.97](news/whats-new-in-babel-3.97.html) | New: `\babelcharclass`, `\babelinterchar` (`xetex`) |
+| [3.98](news/whats-new-in-babel-3.98.html) | `casing` in `ini` files. Improved `persian`/`farsi` |
+| [3.97](news/whats-new-in-babel-3.97.html) | `\babelcharclass`, `\babelinterchar` (`xetex`) |
 | [3.96](news/whats-new-in-babel-3.96.html) | Improved Odia. Improved `onchar` |
 | [3.95](news/whats-new-in-babel-3.95.html) | 16 new locale files (and a few fixes). |
 | [3.94](news/whats-new-in-babel-3.94.html) | Chinese dates. New transform for kashida. New locale files. |

docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.98.md

@@ -4,15 +4,17 @@
 
 # Casing rules in `ini` files
 
-It consists of a space-separated list of character pairs in the order
+A new key named `casing` is available in the `characters` section. It
+consists of a space-separated list of character pairs in the order
 lower/upper which define a bidirectional mapping. By means of 3
-modifiers in the list, unidirectional mappings are also possible: `<u>`
-(uppercase), `<l>` (lowercase) and `<t>` (titlecase). With `<u>` the
-uppercase form comes first. They affect the subsequent pairs.
+modifiers in the list, affecting the subsequent pairs, unidirectional
+mappings are also possible: `<u>` (uppercase), `<l>` (lowercase) and
+`<t>` (titlecase). With `<u>` the uppercase form comes first.
 
-The first element must be a character. With the default bidirectional
-mapping the second one must be also a character, but with `<u>`, `<l>`,
-`<t>` the second element can be a macro or a token list between braces.
+The first element of each pair must be a character. With the default
+bidirectional mapping the second one must be also a character, but with
+`<u>`, `<l>`, `<t>` the second element can be a macro or a token list
+between braces.
 
 In the following example, a couple of bidirectional mappings are
 declared, and then come other unidirectional mappings:
@@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ because LaTeX provides no interface for them.
 
 # Locales
 
-The `ini` file for Persian/Farsi hans been improved by [Farshad
+The `ini` file for Persian/Farsi has been much improved by [Farshad
 Rasuli](https://github.com/farshadrasuli), with some
 mistakes fixed.
 
@@ -66,3 +68,8 @@ following casing variants:
 The new command `\ShowLocaleProporties` prints to the log file all the
 key/value pairs for a locale.
 
+# Fixes
+
+`\foreignlanguage` printed the language name in `xetex` with `thai`,
+`malayalam`, `sanskrit` and other languages that don’t use hyphens.
+