About Acrobat

[Chris Hewitt]

Huan Deng wrote:

>hi:
>   
>   This morning i installed acrobat 5.8 on redhat 8.0,but when i input acroread ,the graph didn't pop out.And the systerm message is :
>   
>   Warning : charset "UTF-8" not supported,using "ISO8859-1"
>   Abort
>
>I have checked the install disk , there is no package named "UTF" or "ISO8859-1".
>What's the matter?
>
UTF-8 and ISO8859-1 define different ways characters are stored on disc.
UTF-8 is flexible as it can contain both single and mulitbyte
characters, though as the first bit of each character needs to be
examined to see if it is a single or multibyte character it is not so
efficient as a single byte system.

The error message you got means that UTF-8 is not supported, only single
byte character sets like ISO8859-1. You need to set the LANG environment
variable to ISO8859-1 before calling Acroread. It may support other
character sets too, I don't know.

This from the fedore-list archives gives a good explanation of doing this:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=108113002911822&w=2

Hope this helps

Chris