On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:25:12 -0800, Pete Nesbitt wrote > 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. > 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. The approach I use is to put the following in /etc/bashrc: export LANG=en_US SUPPORTED="en_US" LC_MESSAGES=C LC_ALL=C BTW, once it is working, if you do a find for text that is not found acroreader will either exit or hang. This has been reported in bugzilla and Adobe bugs, but I have little hope a solution will be soon available. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
