[lug] Acrobat5 and Redhat8.0 ?

[Warren Sanders]

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This is out of the release-notes on RH8:

Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe® Acrobat Reader®, 
may not function correctly (or crash upon startup) because they lack 
support for Unicode locales. Until third party developers provide such 
support in their products, you may work around this issue by setting the 
LANG environment variable at the shell prompt to C prior to typing the 
application name. For example:

env LANG=C acroread

I discovered this problem first off in a remote terminal running 'man' 
and then again using 'mc' (midnight commander).  To prevent having to 
add env LANG=C before every program, I added this to the .bash_profile:

export env LANG=C

Viola!  This was done to better support kanji style font drawing.

Anders Knudsen wrote:
> Just installed Acrobat 5.0.6 linux. When I run the binary on Redhat 8.0,
> I get the following message. ?!?!?
> 
> $ acroread 
> Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> Aborted
> 
> eh? Clueless on this one...
> 
> TIA,
> -anders.
> 
> 
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Warren Sanders
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