On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:48:45PM +0000, Murali P wrote: > > I installed Acrobat5.0.8 and it installed without any > problem.But when I invoke acroread it gives the > following error: > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using > "ISO8859-1". > Aborted > Could someone please give me clues to overcome this You can setup an alias or shell script to set LANG and other environment variables as needed. Something like this.... #!/bin/bash ## $(HOME)/bin/acroread export LANG=en_US export LC_ALL=en_US #/usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread $* /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $* Since LANG is a global issue yours may be different. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.