[texdoc] Possible Bug

[Takuto ASAKURA]

Dear Ralph,

yes indeed, Texdoc should recognize the system language by referring to the environment variables such as LANG. However, sometimes just setting LANG doesn't work; setting LC_ALL fixes the problem in some cases.

Could you please show us the output of the Texdoc execution with the debug option -D?

Best,
Takuto


> On 2022/04/29, at 15:04, Ralph Martin <martinrr at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug, or my lack of understanding, but the following behaviour of texdoc is not what I would expect.
> 
> I am using texlive 2022, under macos 12. The system language is set to English, and my environment contains LANG=en_GB.UTF-8.
> 
> However, when I type 
> texdoc einfart
> I get shown the Chinese information at 
> /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/einfart/einfart-doc-cn.pdf
> rather than the English information at 
> /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/einfart/einfart-doc-en.pdf
> appropriate to my LANG and system language settings.
> 
> The texdoc documentation seems to say that by default the language of the documentation shown should reflect the system's locale.
> 
> I do not have a personal config file:
> cat: /Users/ralph/Library/texmf/texdoc/texdoc.cnf: No such file or directory
> and I have not changed the system-wide one 
> /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/texdoc/texdoc.cnf
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ralph Martin
>