texdoc shows me German docs for some reason

[Takuto ASAKURA]

Hi Jack,

LANG indeed influences the locale setting of Texdoc, but other settings such as LC_ALL also influence it. Unfortunately, it seems the locale setting for Texdoc in your machine is not set to English correctly. For a workaround, you can explicitly set the locale by adding the following to your texdoc.cnf:

	lang = en

Then you will get the English version of the package first.

Another solution is the --list (-l) option to list the found documents for a query.

Best,
Takuto

> On 2022/08/03, at 0:43, tljack at forallx.net wrote:
> 
> 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