Why does adding shorthands to language extras no longer work?

Question

It used to be that this worked:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[main=american,ngerman]{babel}
\addto\extrasamerican{\languageshorthands{ngerman}}

\begin{document}
  Test"=Test
\end{document}

This is taken directly from the babel manual. We would expect to see Test-Test but instead we get Test"=Test.

What changed and how do I adapt?

^{This is on TeXlive 2014 with babel at Version 3.9l 2014/09/25.}

I get identical (Test"=Test) results on TeXLive2013 and TeXLive2014. — Peter Grill, Nov 13 '14 at 22:07
Ah, now that the answer is there, "Related" points to this identical problem with solution. — Raphael, Nov 14 '14 at 16:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '14 at 15:50

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Perhaps the manual should point out shorthands must be activated for american too. The simplest way to do it is, in the preamble:

\useshorthands*{"}

That makes " active for the whole document. If it worked without this declaration, it was a bug, because german deactivates shorthands when changing to another language (it should, but perhaps in a former version it didn't -- just a guess).

answered Nov 14 '14 at 15:50

Javier Bezos

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That helps, thanks! According to the manual, there were some changes with 3.9a but we never noticed with our ngerman material. – Raphael Nov 14 '14 at 16:19

Why does adding shorthands to language extras no longer work?

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