[texdoc] Weird behavior of `texdoc'

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

'ello,

Just a heads up, friends: I *can* reproduce the behaviour reported by 
Yudai. I will try Karl's procedure and report back in a couple of minutes.

Cheerio!

Paulo


Em 14-02-2017 18:51, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard escreveu:
> Hi Yudai,
>
> On 14/02/2017 09:33, Yudai NAKATA wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
> Okay, so maybe texdoc is messing with your locale or other parts of your
> environment before it calls the pager? (Though I don't remember doing
> that on purpose.) Can you try creating an executable file with the
> following content
>
> ---%<---
> #!/bin/sh
>
> locale
> env
> ---%<---
>
> and then running "PAGER=/path/to/that_file texdoc bxjalipsum", and see
> if you see anything weird in the output? Maybe do a diff between the
> output from texdoc and the normal output of the script?
>
>> P.S. comand should be command, I guess ;-)
>>
> Good, catch, thanks, never noticed :)
>
> Best regards,
> Manuel.
>