problem with acroread

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 00:07, Globe Trotter wrote:
> --- "Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto at ornl.gov> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 19:35, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > > can anyone please tell me where this error comes from? i am running fc1 and
> > i
> > > have never seen it before:
> > > 
> > > $ acroread 
> > > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> > > Aborted
> > > $
> > 
> > Well, what I used to do to get around this:
> > 
> > export LANG="C"
> > Then run acroread.
> 
> Thanks a bundle! It works!! Do you (or anyone) know how I can get this to work
> automatically? Where do I put this? Or is this some library that is missing and
> has to be put in place?
UTF-8 may have some good features. This means that you may not want to
change the LANG globally.  So, I recommend that you write a simple bash
script to set the LANG env variable only when you startup acroread.



> 
> Thanks and best wishes!
> 
> 
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Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>