problem with acroread

[Robert Echlin]

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?
>>
<snipper>
> Type 'which acroread' and edit that file (it is actually a script)
> put the export line after the first line of the script.
This works for me, too.
I guess I still haven't got acclimated to *nix's lack of naming 
distinctions between binary and script executables.

Robert