[texdoc] Weird behavior of `texdoc'

[Yudai NAKATA]

Dear Karl,

> When I run
> env LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 texdoc bxjalipsum >/tmp/t

I’ve tried the same line and then `cat /tmp/t` returns the desired
characters on my
Mac as well (I don’t understand what these different results suggests, though).

> Have you tried it with other packages,
> just to see?

I tried with zxjatype
(https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/japanese/zxjatype),
and got the same result with bxjalipsum.

Regarding your P.S. in the next email, I use up-to-date TeX Live 2016
both on Mac
and on Ubuntu.

Best regards,
Yudai Nakata

On 2017年2月14日 at 8:01:37, Karl Berry (karl at freefriends.org) wrote:
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>
> When I run
> env LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 texdoc bxjalipsum >/tmp/t
> (to take the output device out of the equation)
> I see the expected binary characters in /tmp/t,
> rather than the strings.
>
> It's certainly possible that something in texdoc, or a Lua library,
> is somehow transliterating the binary, but I don't know of anything
> explicit for that. I have to wonder if it is something about the Mac
> that is causing the bad behavior. Have you tried it with other packages,
> just to see?
>
> Thanks for the report. --karl
>