problem with acroread

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Prasanth Kumar wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 21:07, 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?
> >
> > Thanks and best wishes!
>
> Type 'which acroread' and edit that file (it is actually a script)
> put the export line after the first line of the script.

Or grab the RPMs from www.gurulabs.com.  They have this fix and they
install the Mozilla plugin with no hassle.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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