[ltp] [OT] Using Adobe Reader 5.0.8 under RH9

[J Paul Richardson]

I had the same thing happen.  Fixed by issuing 

LANG=C; export LANG

just before staring.

I added this to the acroread script file that starts the reader.

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On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 21:29, James McKenzie wrote:
> Listers:
> 
> Forgive the OT post, but I trying to get the Adobe Reader for Linux 
> version 5.0.8 to work under Red Hat 9 (I'm assuming that I will have the 
> same problem under Fedora Core 1.) 
> 
> When I start the acroread program under /opt/local/Acrobat5/bin, I get 
> the following error:
> Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> The "Aborted".
> 
> I do not want to use xpdf nor ggv to read them when using either Mozilla 
> nor Netscape as they do not save to the .pdf format but rather .ps.  
> 
> Anyone have an idea how I can get around this or can provide a pointer 
> to the 'solution'?
> 
> Please reply off list.  I will post the 'best' workable solution to the 
> list.
> 
> James McKenzie