seth vidal [skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 13:54, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I haven't seen any comment about this on the list but when I install > > acroread for Acrobat Reader 5.6 and try to apply it to a pdf file I > > get this error: > > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". > > Aborted > > > > add this to the start of /usr/bin/acroread (which is a shell script - or > wherever it is installed for you) > > if [ "$LANG" = "en_US.UTF-8" ]; then > LANG=en_US > export LANG > fi This worked for me - put this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias acroread='echo; echo '\''*** acrobat run from .bashrc, with LANG=C ***'\''; echo; LANG='\''C'\'' /path/to/acroread' HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Red Hat, Inc.