redhat 8 UTF-8 problem

[Bo Peng <bpeng stat rice edu>]

Hi,

After I upgraded to redhat 8, I find that acroread does not work. It 
gives error message like 'does not support UTF-8' and then core dump. I 
searched the list archive and changed
  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to
  LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
and acroread works OK now.

However, the font for my terminals behave strangely after this change. 
The display of mutt, mc etc are distorted. Is there a thorough solution 
to this problem? I am now thinking something like aliasing acroread 
to "set LANG="en_US.ISO-8895-1" | acroread".

Thanks.

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Bo Peng