`texdoc` search algorithm and language settings

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 10:45:15 CET 2022


Hi,

confirmed, the same on my computer.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml

so 5. 11. 2022 v 7:21 odesílatel Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> napsal:
>
>
> [Texdoc 3.4.1 (2022-03-19), without personal configuration file]
>
>
> How is language-specific documentation selected?  For example, the
> default language environment settings on my GNU/Linux box are
>
> ```
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=de
> ```
>
> Doing one of the following
>
> ```
> texdoc impnattypo
> LANGUAGE=en texdoc impnattypo
> ```
>
> however, displays `impnattypo-fr.pdf`.  I have to say
>
> ```
> LANG= texdoc impnattypo
> ```
>
> to eventually get `impnattypo.pdf`.
>
> This behaviour doesn't look right to me.  Why is the `LANGUAGE`
> setting ignored?  And, more severe: Why is `LANG=en_US.UTF-8` ignored?
>
>
>     Werner



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