Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

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Harry Putnam wrote:
> Maybe someone will recognize this error and know what it is about:
> 
> First, using xpdf, I have no problem:
>   xpdf motorola_v60.pdf
>   <motorola_v60.pdf opens as expected>
> 
>   acroread motorola_v60.pdf
>   Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
>   Aborted
> 
> Even the *.pdf files that unpacked with version 5, cause this same
> error:
> 
>   acroread MapTypes.pdf
>    Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
>    Aborted
> 
> My env setting for $LANG shows something that may be the culprit:
>   echo $LANG
>   en_US.UTF-8
> 
> Unless I did something dumb during install this is what I got with a
> fairly stock install.
> 
> 
> 

You can edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread to add near the beginning 
of the file (i.e., just after the "ver" and "install" lines):

LANG=en_us
export LANG

and it should then work correctly.
-- 
gerry
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