Hi Teddy, As far as I understood, the problem arises because Mandrake 9.1 uses the newer character set using UTF8 instead of the old en_US one... I think it's a "locale" problem. Older programs have some problems with UTF, and Acrobat is one of them.
You could either change the system's locale (which isn't worth doing if you just want to use acrobat reader) by changing the LANG setting in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n as root. with your favourite editor to en_US locale. A better solution in my opinion, is to modify the file: /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread as root with your favourite editor, by adding the following: <<content of file starts here>> #!/bin/sh # ###this fixes problem with UTF fonts LC_ALL=en_US export LC_ALL ###end of changes ver=5.0.6 <<content of file CONTINUES here>> After changing the file, save it, and run Acrobat again. The reason why I used LC_ALL instead of LANG, is that there are other locale settings (like currency or something) that are also set to a UTF font, and seemed to be problem when I just set LANG. LC_ALL overrides all the locale settings, and by putting it in the startup file, you just modify those settings for Acrobat. I am sure you can find exactly which locale settings were the problem, but I didn't want to try them all, so I decided to just override all of them and it works well now. If anyone knows exactly which ones were the problem, maybe just changing those would provide a better solution. I hope it helps, it worked for me. gikoreno --- On Tue 06/17, Teddy Widhi Laksono < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Teddy Widhi Laksono [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:53:03 +0700 Subject: [newbie] Failed runing acrobat reader 5 for linux? Hi, i have installed acroread5 (Acrobat Reader 5) for linux. after i <br>installed and i runing it, i failed to show up the acroread on mandrake 9.1. <br>and the warning is ""Charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". <br>Aborted"". Why? something wrong with my installation or some package i have <br>to remove to runing acroread?<br><br>Teddy<br><br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
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