Hi Hardy Thanks for the info below, I implemented it and despite Acrobat still grizzling during its start up above fonts not being supported, it now continues and launches!
Once again, thanks Hardy Roger On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 04:41, Hardy Merrill wrote: > Lucky for you, someone I work with just ran into that problem > the other day. The problem seems to be that Acrobat does not > like the RH8.0 default of UTF-8 - it expects ISO8859-1. The > way we got around that was to create this alias in .bashrc: > > alias acroread='LANG=en_US.iso885915 /usr/bin/acroread' > > This will set the LANG environment variable ***for just this > acroread command***. > > HTH. > > -- > Hardy Merrill > Senior Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. > > Roger Harrington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > I have downloaded from the Adobe site, linux-506.tar.gz. > > > > It seemed to successfully install into my nominated directory: - > > /usr/local/Acrobat5; well, I didn't see any error messages generated! > > > > On running it by typing "acroread", I get after a couple of seconds, > > Warning : charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1" > > > > After a couple more seconds I get the word , "Aborted" appear. > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
