### An reproducible example


 1. create skeleton quarto book.

 2. add `lang: zh` to `_quarto.yml`.

 3. Click `Render Book` button to build PDF document.

### partial log

```
pandoc 
  to: latex
  output-file: index.tex
  standalone: true
  toc: true
  number-sections: true
  top-level-division: chapter
  pdf-engine: xelatex
  variables:
    graphics: true
    tables: true
  default-image-extension: pdf
  filters:
    - crossref
    - citeproc
  
metadata
  crossref:
    chapters: true
  documentclass: scrreprt
  papersize: letter
  classoption:
    - DIV=11
    - numbers=noendperiod
  header-includes:
    - '\KOMAoption{captions}{tableheading}'
  block-headings: true
  lang: zh
  bibliography:
    - references.bib
  title: quarto-zh
  author: Jane Doe
  date: 4/29/2022
  
runnning xelatex - 1
  This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999994 (TeX Live 2022) (preloaded format=xelatex)
   restricted \write18 enabled.
  entering extended mode
  
updating tlmgr

updating existing packages

compilation failed- error
Package babel Error: There is no ini file for the requested language
(babel)                (: ). Perhaps you misspelled it or your
(babel)                installation is not complete..

See the babel package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.208 \babelprovide[main,import]{}
                                   

see /Users/xiangyun/Documents/Github/quarto-zh/index.log for more information.
```

Here is a full log file [index.log](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/files/8588146/index.log)


### Session Info

```r
xfun::session_info(c("rmarkdown", "quarto","knitr"),dependencies = F)
```
```
R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Monterey 12.3.1, RStudio 2022.2.1.461

Locale: en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.UTF-8 / C / en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.UTF-8

Package version:
  knitr_1.39     quarto_1.1     rmarkdown_2.14

Pandoc version: 2.18
```

I use Quarto Version 0.9.309 which installed from `brew install quarto`

2022-04-29T04:32:39Z
XiangyunHuang
closed
Package babel Error: There is no ini file for the requested language
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/757