TeX Live Manager GUI shows Unicode codes instead of characters

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:46:26PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 09:17:09PM -0700, Andrey Sotnikov wrote:
> > When I start tlmgr GUI (Linux platform), all text GUI elements have a form
> > of \x{NNN} instead of real text (picture attached).
> > [image: image.png]
> > 
> > I understand that this is Unicode code points instead of the real
> > characters. I tried
> > 
> > tlmgr gui -font "DejaVuSans 14"
> 
> Perl/Tk takes font settings in the X resource database into account,
> e.g. for your personal settings a line in ~/.Xresources
> 
> *Font: <some font specification>
> 
> Maybe something funny there?
> 
> As to language: it should be configurable from the GUI, but if that
> is illegible then you can edit
> ~/.texlive2021/texmf-config/tlmgr/config yourself, e.g.:
> 
> gui-lang = en

Relevant command-line parameters:

Language: e.g. '-gui-lang ru'

Font: e.g. '-font fixed'

Keep in mind that Perl/Tk is antique, so some font specifications
may not be supported. quote the old many-parameter X11 font
specifications.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg