Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems-resolved

From: Carla Schroder (carla@bratgrrl.com)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 13:54:28 EDT

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    This is a unicode issue, it is not yet completely supported in all
    applications. By default, RH8 installs UTF8. One option is the change the
    system locale to an ISO set.

    I read the Red Hat release notes, which give a better solution than changing
    the entire system locale:

    http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/

    "Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe® Acrobat Reader®, 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"

    I tried this on Abiword, and it does the trick.

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