texdoc shows me German docs for some reason
tljack at forallx.net
tljack at forallx.net
Tue Aug 2 17:43:46 CEST 2022
In TL2022, `texdoc` shows me the German version of documentation if it
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.
This strikes me as a bug, since:
* texdoc has never behaved this way up through and including TL2020.
Testing reveals that this bug is present in TL2021 too.
* $LANG is en_US.UTF-8, which the texdoc manpage says should "influence"
search results.
* I have zero `collection-lang*` packages installed (so
`collection-langgerman` can't be interfering).
* My texdoc.cnf has nothing involving languages, but consists solely of
`fuzzy_level = 0` and `viewer_pdf = open %s`.
* tlmgr and friends all talk to me in English, so it's not as though I
accidentally tripped some global TL language switch.
However, I don't know whether the bug is in `texdoc` or in some other
internal piece of TL.
Anybody got an idea? Just to forestall any complaints about having a
weird installation that's missing collection-lang*, I also tested after
a `tlmgr install scheme-tetex` and the bug is still present.
-jack
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