On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 10:00, Jose Kilpua wrote: > Hi everyone ! > > I downloaded Acrobat Reader for Linux from Adobe. I installed it - no > errors. > Now I try to use it (as user and as root) , it says Aborted. What I should > do, to get it running? > I am using latest stable kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > [jose@josehost bin]$ /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /home/jose/TSG03.pdf > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". > Aborted > [jose@josehost bin]$ > > Ciao, > Jose In a terminal type locale if it says us_EN.UTF8 or whatever your local LANG is like gb_EN.UTF8 type LANG=en_US && export LANG /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /home/jose/TSG03.pdf You could put this in a script #!/bin/bash LANG=en_US && export LANG /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $@ or make the change permanent by making the the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n not use UTF8 BTW using UTF8 can really slow your system down, there was an article on Slashdot about the use of UTF8 and speed performance. If you need UTF8 then the bash script should handle the problem. -- Best Regards, Keith NW Oregon Radio http://kilowatt-radio.org/ Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum.
