[Tex/LaTex] \usepackage[turkish]{babel} and \includegraphics inconcistency

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Here is my document :

\documentclass[12pt]{book}

% must-have packages
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % This package will support Turkish chars
% must-have packages

\usepackage[a4paper,left=2.5cm,right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{listings}

% settings
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
% settings

\begin{document}

\framebox{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{./images/image_3.png}}

\end{document}

When I try to build a pdf out of this file I received bunch of errors. here is one of them :

Missing \endcsname inserted
…graphics[scale=0.5]{./images/image_3.png}}

When I remove the babel package, it runs smoothly. Even when I change the language to another language, it runs as well.

What is happening here?

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I believed that this problem had been solved, but it seems not.

Since you can input directly Turkish specific characters as Unicode, you should not need the = shortcuts; so

\begin{document}
\shorthandoff{=}

will cure the problem. In case you really need the shortcuts with =, the unique way seems to be to say

\shorthandoff{=}

before all \includegraphics commands and \shorthandon{=} again after them.

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[Tex/LaTex] Beamer crashes with babel Turkish package

It works if you move the commands outside the frame:

\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\shorthandoff{=}
\begin{frame}
    \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.3]{resimler/stmornek2.png}
    \end{figure}
\end{frame}
\shorthandon{=}
\end{document}

or if you add the fragile option to the frame:

\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
    \begin{figure}
    \shorthandoff{=}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.3]{resimler/stmornek2.png}
    \shorthandon{=}
    \end{figure}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

As egreg mentions in his comment, you are using the utf8 option for inputenc, so you don't really need the = shorthands for the turkish module of babel, and you can simply deactivate them after \begin{document}:

\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\shorthandoff{=}

\begin{frame}
    \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.3]{resimler/stmornek2.png}
    \end{figure}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] What’s the difference between \usepackage{ngerman} and \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

Assuming you only want to use one language in your document: Contrary to babel with the ngerman option, the ngerman package will not be detected by biblatex, and the latter will therefore still use the default (english) headings for bibliographies.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ngerman}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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According to this thread in de.comp.text.tex, babel also activates language-specific shorthands (many of which involve ") only at the beginning of the document body, while ngerman activates them immediately. The following example (without \mdqoff/\mdqon) results in an incorrect \inch macro with ngerman:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ngerman}

% \mdqoff
\newcommand*{\inch}{"-Zeichen}
% \mdqon

\begin{document}

\inch

\end{document}

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