[texdoc] Weird behavior of `texdoc'

[Yudai NAKATA]

Hi Manuel,

> Can you try 'texdoc -v
> bxjalipsum' and paste here the line that starts with "texdoc info: View
> comand:" in the output? What happens if you run this command manually
> from your terminal?

It returns “texdoc info: View comand: less
"/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bxjalipsum/README.md””.
Strangely, manually running `less "/usr/local/…` displays the
characters correctly.

P.S. comand should be command, I guess ;-)

Best regards,
Yudai Nakata

On 2017年2月14日 at 8:28:36, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard (mpg at elzevir.fr) wrote:
> Hi Yudai,
>
> Thanks for your detailled report!
>
> On 13/02/2017 12:32, Yudai NAKATA wrote:
> > 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
> >
> I agree that this is not the expected behaviour.
>
> > 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.
> >
> This is weird because if I remember correctly, texdoc is supposed to
> pass the document to your pager anyway. Can you try 'texdoc -v
> bxjalipsum' and paste here the line that starts with "texdoc info: View
> comand:" in the output? What happens if you run this command manually
> from your terminal?
>
> > Is this a normal behavior? It seems like a bug IMHO, but I apologize
> > if this behavior is just as you expected.
> >
> No, this is not the behaviour I would expect either, let's try to fix
> this together!
>
> Thanks,
> Manuel.
>