On November 15, 2003 10:40 am, Lui, James wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded the Acrobat Reader (Linux 5.0.8 version) from the Adobe > website and installed on my PC running RedHat Linux 9. The installation > went clean (ie, no warnings/errors). However, when I tried to invoke > > acroread, I got the following messages and an abort: > > jclloc1:/home1/jclloc1/Acrobat5/bin> ./acroread & > > [1] 3123 > > jclloc1:/home1/jclloc1/Acrobat5/bin> Warning: charset "UTF-8" not > > supported, using "ISO8859-1". > > > > jclloc1:/home1/jclloc1/Acrobat5/bin> > > [1]+ Aborted ./acroread > > Has anyone encountered similar problems? Is the "abort" triggered by > the "charset UTF-8 not supported" warning? > > Any suggestions on how to get around the problem will be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Jim This is the same problem that causes man pages to be displayed with errors. It is a problem related to the locale and old C libraries. You need to set LANG=C before starting the program. here is a script idesa that will resolve it. By using the script wrapper, instead of a global, you avoid causing errors in oter programs. (/usr/local/bin/acroread) #!/bin/sh env LANG=C /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$@" This assumes that the executable shell script /usr/local/bin/acroread will appear in your path before the true acroread binary. You may want to wrap 'man' like that as well. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
