texdoc shows me German docs for some reason
Dr Nicola L C Talbot
n.talbot at uea.ac.uk
Wed Aug 3 10:49:45 CEST 2022
>> 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.
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
I don't know if it's related but I've found that after upgrading Fedora
I'm now getting „ and “ instead of “ and ” when using AltGr+V and
AltGr+B so something may have gone wrong with the localisation settings
that's affecting texdoc.
$ locale
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.utf8
LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8
LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8
LC_NAME=en_GB.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.utf8
LC_ALL=
$ uname -r
5.18.13-200.fc36.x86_64
$ texdoc -l geometry
1 /home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/geometry-de.pdf
= [de] Package documentation (German)
2 /home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/geometry.pdf
= [en] Package documentation (English)
3 /home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lapdf/geometry.pdf
4
/home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/metapost/mp3d/tugboat-geometry-space.pdf
= [en] Paper on geometry, for TUGboat
5 /home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/README.md
= Package Readme
6 /home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/changes.txt
7 /home/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/luatexja/lltjp-geometry.pdf
Regards
Nicola
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