[texdoc] Weird behavior of `texdoc'

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

LESSCHARSET=utf-8 texlua test.lua

and it works. :) Looks like 'less' is the one to blame...

Paulo

Em 15-02-2017 20:31, Karl Berry escreveu:
>     but the underlying texlua interpreter.
>     One for dev-luatex at ntg.nl, perhaps? Karl, Manuel?
>
> I'm not sure yet.
>
> I reduced the input to a one-line file, call it /tmp/test.txt:
> a → b
>
> And then running
>   env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 texlua /tmp/test.lua
> with your test.lua, which calls less, gives the bad <xx> result.
>
> But if I change test.lua to the one line
>   os.execute('cat "/tmp/test.txt"') -- instead of less
> the output is correct for me (given a UTF-8 terminal font, of course).
>
> Also, if it was a generic problem, every UTF-8 character would be
> rendered incorrectly for everyone. But we've never received a single
> report before this. It seems ... unlikely.
>
> I don't suppose it could be about that particular UTF-8 char?  --karl
>