Acrobat reader fails when LANG=en_AU.UTF-8


Problem: Error when launching acrobat reader with LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

"Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
Aborted"

Cause: bug in acroread

Resolution:

  1. Move the acroread binary to acroread.real
    mv /usr/local/bin/acroread /usr/local/bin/acroread.real

  2. Create the following script as acroread and make it executeable

touch /usr/loca/bin/acroread

vi /usr/local/bin/acroread

#!/bin/sh

export LANG=en_AU
prefix=/usr/local/bin
$prefix/acroread.real $*


James McDonald