texdoc shows me German docs for some reason

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 03:03:03 CEST 2022


On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 8:01 PM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
wrote:

> > exists on the machine.  This is true even when the English version
> (which is
> > what I want) is also on the machine.  E.g., `texdoc geometry` shows me
> > 'geometry-de.pdf' even though 'geometry.pdf' is also sitting right there.
>
> Indeed, I can confirm that
> [~] texdoc -l geometry
>  1 /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/geometry-de.pdf
>    = [de] Package documentation (German)
>  2 /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/geometry.pdf
>    = [en] Package documentation (English)
>  3 /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lapdf/geometry.pdf
>  4
> /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/metapost/mp3d/tugboat-geometry-space.pdf
>    = [en] Paper on geometry, for TUGboat
>  5 /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/README.md
>    = Package Readme
>  6 /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/changes.txt
>  7 /home/norbert/tl/2022/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/luatexja/lltjp-geometry.pdf
>
> while
> [~] locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=C
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY=ja_JP.UTF-8
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT=C
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> That is indeed strange.
>

Strange, but not unique:

 % locale
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
% texdoc -l phonenumbers
 1
/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/phonenumbers/phonenumbers-de.pdf
   = [de] German package documentation
 2
/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/phonenumbers/phonenumbers-en.pdf
   = English package documentation
 3 /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/phonenumbers/README
   = Readme

-- 
George N. White III
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