Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Ko Pu wrote:
> Has anybody succeded in making AR5.08 working under FC1? I downloaded 
> the file from Adobe and installed several times, but it still won't 
> work. I even tried to just open the application in both locations 
> (/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread and 
> /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) but nothing happened, is there 
> anything that I need to do? I think if this part is not working, the 
> plugin won't work either.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion

For the reader, you need to edit the launch script 
(/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) to change the value of LANG to 
something that isn't UTF-8.

simply placing "LANG=en_US" near the top of the file, for instance, 
works for ugly Americans.

According to various sources, "LANG=C" or "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" 
(replace en_US with your preferred language code) work as well or better.