problem with acroread

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 listas at lozano.eti.br wrote:

> This questions appears over and over on this list. It should be a FAQ - and
> people should learn to search the archives before asking again :-)
> 
> But I have to note that this solution works only for english-speaking people.
> When you use LANG=C you loose all regional settings, translations and ability
> to use accented characters. The correct solution to to see what's your original
> LANG value is, for example:
> 
> $ echo $LANG
> pt_BR.UTF-8
> 
> And then change jut the part *after* the dot to "ISO8859-1". This way acrobat
> (and other non-Unicode enabled software) works as they did on older releases of
> Red Hat, and you don't loose your regional settings.

I now implemented your solution in my acroread package.

Thanks for the feedback,
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