Manpager gives only on very few posisitons color

[frere-jacques]

bat 0.24.0 (fc95468)
I am using arch with terminal foot and zsh. I tried it too with bash, but with same results.
I have this in my .zshrc
export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'"
export MANROFFOPT="-c"

The second helped to get rid of weird characters. But I get only on very few words colors.
I really don't see what the problem is. Looking online it should show much more.

Edit: I figured out it is related to the theme. I have set theme to ansi, because I wanted bat to just follow my terminal colors. If I unset the envvar BAT_THEME. I have a lot more of colors in the man output. So I guess it means I shouldn't use ansi, but find a proper theme with my desired colors instead.

If there is another workaround I am happy to hear about it.

Edit2: Found a fitting theme https://github.com/mhanberg/everforest-textmate/blob/main/Everforest%20Dark/Everforest%20Dark.tmTheme
But using that theme gives same result. Only a few words at all colored.
I guess it's related to #2115

[frere-jacques]

Here is a picture.

[keith-hall]

the Manpage syntax is currently looking for specific headings in order to assign colors to that section. Probably we need to add support for your language (German)?

[frere-jacques]

Interesting, did not thought it might be related to localization.

[keith-hall]

To be fair, you're probably hitting the theme issue too at the same time. But PRs to improve localized Manpage highlighting will be gratefully accepted. (I don't think there is a viable alternative to get correct coloring regardless of language locale due to how arbitrary man pages are)

[frere-jacques]

I forgot completely on the topic.
Short question. I actually don't like to have my complete locale on english. But I am totaly fine with english man pages.
I use the following export to use bat as manpager:

export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat --theme=default -l man -Len -p'"

I read that one can overwrite the locale for man via -L and other methods. Is there a rather uncomplicated way to modify this export to use english man pages?

[frere-jacques]

Okay, I think this has nothing to do with the locale.
I started a terminal and run:
export LANG=en_US.utf8
and then man man.
When I don't overwrite the theme in the MANPAGER export, it looks in english nearly the same. See english output: