[KLUG Members] Acrobat Reader under RH8

members@kalamazoolinux.org members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:03:13 -0500


> . Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe(R) Acrobat
>    Reader(R), may not function correctly (or crash upon startup) because
>    they lack support for Unicode locales. Until third party developers
>    provide such support in their products, you may work around this
>    issue by setting the LANG environment variable at the shell prompt to C
>    prior to typing the application name. For example:
>        env LANG=C acroread

Yep.  Added "export LANG=C" to the top of the wrapper script in /usr/bin and now
acroread fires right up.  Very cool.  

Now how does one apply that the .so mozilla plugin?  Hmmm...