About Acrobat

[mylar]

It's uncanny. I just happen to install the same Acrobat (downloaded from
Adobe) on my Fedora Core 1, I get the exact same error and lo, I read my
mail for this list and there  is the exact same question I was about to
ask. 

I figured it has something to do with lack of support in Acrobat for
UTF-8. Okay on the workaround. I'll give it a try. Ultimately however
support for UTF-8 needs  to be added to "acroread".

Also, thank goodness for alternative pdf file viewers like xpdf and
others.

mylar


 

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:38, Chris Hewitt wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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