[5777] in testers
Re: Linux 9.3 acroread warnings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Apr 12 18:37:20 2004
Message-Id: <200404122237.i3CMbIgs004124@dit.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[5772] in testers"
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:37:17 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I wrote:
>I get these warnings when launching acroread on a Linux 9.3 machine:
>
>astrophel.mit.edu:~ athena% acroread
>Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
>Warning: Encoding "ISO8859-1" is missing the following fonts:
> ISO10646-1
It was worse than that- also crashing with an "Abort" message.
apparently on Linux 9.3, acroread doesn't like LANG set to en_US.UTF-8.
I set it to C in the launch script and that seems to fix things.
Alex
