[texdoc] Weird behavior of `texdoc'

[Yudai NAKATA]

Dear Reinhard,

Thank you for your testing. I also tried on Ubuntu and `texdoc
bxjalipsum` opens README.md
via gedit, not via a pager. In gedit, the README.md displayed as expected.

> It's more likely that in both cases different fonts are used

I don’t think so. My problem is that `texdoc bxjalipsum` don’t
properly show the content while
`texdoc bxjalipsum | less` does. Font setting is consistent within one
terminal emulator.

Best regards,
Yudai Nakata

On 2017年2月14日 at 7:31:03, Reinhard Kotucha (reinhard.kotucha at web.de) wrote:
> Dear Yudai,
> on my Linux box everything is displayed as expected. I can't imagine
> that your problem is caused by texdoc. It's more likely that in both
> cases different fonts are used, one which contains \rightarrow and one
> which doesn't.
>
> Can anybody else reproduce the problem reported below?
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard
>
>
> On 2017-02-13 at 06:32:32 -0500, Yudai NAKATA wrote:
>
> > Dear Dr. Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard,
> >
> > This is Yudai Nakata, a TeX Live user from Japan.
> >
> > I am emailing you as I’ve found that texdoc seems to fail treating
> > character encoding properly
> > and hence some READMEs get corrupted on the terminal.
> >
> > I take bxjalipsum package (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/bxjalipsum) as an
> > example here.
> > In README.md, you will find a line saying
> >
> > > - `*.sty` → $TEXMF/tex/latex/BXjalipsum
> >
> > This line contains non-ASCII characters (→: U+2192 RIGHTWARDS ARROW), and
> > `texdoc bxjalipsum` renders this line as follows.
> >
> > > - `*.sty` <86><92> $TEXMF/tex/latex/BXjalipsum
> >
> > However, this should not happen because I set the LANG environment
> > variable as ja_JP.UTF-8
> > and all UTF-8-encoded files should be displayed as intended. In fact,
> > bxjalipsum’s README.md
> > doesn’t get corrupted if I explicitly pipe the stdout of `texdoc
> > bxjalipsum` to a pager, i.e., the command
> > `texdoc bxjalipsum | $PAGER` will work.
> >
> > Is this a normal behavior? It seems like a bug IMHO, but I apologize
> > if this behavior is just as you expected.
> >
> > Finally, I’ll note my environment:
> > - OS: OS X El Capitan
> > - TeX distribution: TeX Live 2016
> > - terminal emulator: iTerm and the built-in Terminal.app
> > - pager: less and more
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yudai Nakata
> >
>
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