As root edit /usr/bin/acroread (it's a shell script). At the top of the script add a line that says LANG=C mine looks like this: #!/bin/sh # # Work around until Acrobat gets Unicode locale support LANG=C ver=5.06 and so on ... LANG=en_US would probably work just as well. -- Mike Wescott Wescott_Mike at EMC.COM