[Fedora Core 9.0.94] - Acrobat Reader 5.0.8 crashing

[Craig Ringer]

> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phoebe-list/2003-February/msg01457.html
> 
> <snip>
> 
>  > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> 
> One way to get it to work is to edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread 
> and add near the beginning of the file (i.e., just after the "ver" and 
> "install" lines):
> 
> LANG=en_us
> export LANG

This is the way to go, since it works system-wide. The long-term 
solution is for Adobe to FIX ACROREAD - either so that it doesn't crash 
on utf8 locales, or at least so that it's shipped to reset the locale 
before launching. They've had a KB article on this issue since at least 
5.0.5 :-(

Craig Ringer