[Fedora Core 9.0.94] - Acrobat Reader 5.0.8 crashing

[Sean Craig]

Hi all,

Nice fresh installation of Fedora, latest Acrobat Reader 5.0.8,

crashing like so:

[user@host dir]$ ./acroread
Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
Aborted

Any ideas?

thanks

Sean Craig

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:34:55AM +0400, Sean Craig wrote:

>  [user@host dir]$ ./acroread
>  Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
>  Aborted
>  
>  Any ideas? 
Try:

LANG=C ./acroread

Cheers,

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[Barry K. Nathan]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:34:55AM +0400, Sean Craig wrote:
>  [user@host dir]$ ./acroread
>  Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
>  Aborted 
Try something like:
  [user@host dir]$ LANG=C ./acroread

Does that work? (I haven't installed the Fedora Core test on any of my
systems yet, so this is just an educated guess.)

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn(a)pobox.com&gt;

Sean Craig wrote:

>  worked like charm.
>
>  Rather than muck about with ~/.bash_profile and risk breaking 
>  something else, I put the following in a script file:
>
>  LANG=C /full/path/to/acroread $1 

hi,
an other solution can you find here:


https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phoebe-list/2003-February/msg01457.html

<snip>

>  Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using
> "ISO8859-1". 
One way to get it to work is to edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread 
and add near the beginning of the file (i.e., just after the "ver" and 
"install" lines):

LANG=en_us
export LANG

</snip>

-- 
shrek-m

[Craig Ringer]

> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phoebe-list/2003-February/msg01457.html
>  
>  <snip>
>  
>   > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
>  
>  One way to get it to work is to edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread 
>  and add near the beginning of the file (i.e., just after the "ver" and 
>  "install" lines):
>  
>  LANG=en_us
>  export LANG 
This is the way to go, since it works system-wide. The long-term 
solution is for Adobe to FIX ACROREAD - either so that it doesn't crash 
on utf8 locales, or at least so that it's shipped to reset the locale 
before launching. They've had a KB article on this issue since at least 
5.0.5 :-(

Craig Ringer

[Elton Woo]

On September 29, 2003 04:03 am, Sean Craig <Sean Craig 
<seanc(a)tech-access.com&gt;&gt; wrote:
>   <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:00:39 -0400
Your message header verifies that you are posting in HTML ...

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Would you kindly *not* post in HTML, please?
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cheers,

Elton ;-)
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