`texdoc` search algorithm and language settings
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Sat Nov 5 07:21:21 CET 2022
[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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