tlpkg UTF-8 Umlauts Problem

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:36:53AM +0100, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > when TeX Live is installed, it shows (in german):
> > 
> >   Schauen Sie in die /usr/local/texlive/2021/index.html fr Links auf die Dokumentation.
> >   Die TeX Live Website (https://tug.org/texlive/) enthlt Updates and
> >   Korrekturen. TeX Live ist ein vereintes Projekt der TeX Nutzergruppen
> >   weltweit, werden Sie Mitglied um ihre Arbeit zu untersttzen. Die Liste
> >   der Gruppen finden Sie unter https://tug.org/usergroups.html.
> > 
> >   Fge /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/man zu  MANPATH hinzu.
> >   Fge /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/info zu INFOPATH hinzu.
> > 
> > Actually the message above shows in the gnome term (linux) all
> > latin-small u with diaeresis (UTF-8 C3 BC) as "replacement character"
> > (UTF-8 EF BF BD). (This got lost when copying into the mail.)
> > 
> > With the same terminal i can read de.po without problem, and all umlauts
> > are there. Hexdump shows that in de.po they are proper 2-byte UTF-8. So
> > at which point between de.po and the Tex Live installer message on the
> > terminal these umlauts might get mangled?
> 
> With urxvt I see the umlauts just fine. What do you get with another

Apparently, urxvt sees that the output is latin-something and acts
accordingly. The logfile also was latin-something.

I guess it is necessary to tell Perl explicitly that we want unicode
output.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg