CTAN update: upmendex
Date: February 16, 2026 7:40:27 AM CET
Takuji Tanaka submitted an update to the
upmendex
package.
Version: 1.22 2026-02-15
License: bsd3
Summary description: Multilingual index processor
Announcement text:
upmendex update from v1.20 to v1.22 * Add command line option '--version' * Better treatment of Ö,ö,Ő,ő in Estonian. * Better treatment of Ŋ,ŋ in Finnish. * Better treatment of Þ,þ in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. * Better treatment of Ę,ę in Norwegian and Swedish. * Better treatment of Ð,ð,Đ,đ in Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Icelandic. * Better treatment of Ü,ü,Ű,ű in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. * Better treatment of Ö,ö,Ø,ø,Ő,ő,Ô,ô,Œ,œ,Æ,æ,Ä,ä in Swedish and Finnish. * Better treatment of Ø,ø,Ö,ö,Æ,æ,Ä,ä in Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. * Several bug fix.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/upmendex The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/indexing/upmendex/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
upmendex update from v1.20 to v1.22 * Add command line option '--version' * Better treatment of Ö,ö,Ő,ő in Estonian. * Better treatment of Ŋ,ŋ in Finnish. * Better treatment of Þ,þ in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. * Better treatment of Ę,ę in Norwegian and Swedish. * Better treatment of Ð,ð,Đ,đ in Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Icelandic. * Better treatment of Ü,ü,Ű,ű in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. * Better treatment of Ö,ö,Ø,ø,Ő,ő,Ô,ô,Œ,œ,Æ,æ,Ä,ä in Swedish and Finnish. * Better treatment of Ø,ø,Ö,ö,Æ,æ,Ä,ä in Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. * Several bug fix.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/upmendex The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/indexing/upmendex/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
upmendex – Multilingual index processor
The package is a multilingual index processor with the following features:
- Mostly compatible with makeindex and upper compatible with mendex.
- Supports UTF-8 and works with upLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
- Supports Latin (including non-English), Greek, Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and Chinese Han (Hanzi ideographs) scripts, as well as Japanese Kana.
- Supports four kinds of sort orders (Pinyin, Radical-Stroke, Stroke and Zhuyin) for Chinese Han scripts (Hanzi ideographs).
- Support Brahmic (Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Kannada, Lao, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai), Arabic and Hebrew scripts (experimental).
- Applies International Components for Unicode (ICU) for sorting process.
| Package | upmendex |
| Version | 1.22 2026-02-15 |
| Copyright | 1995 ASCII Corporation 2009 ASCII MEDIA WORKS 2015–2026 TANAKA Takuji |
| Maintainer | Takuji Tanaka |