Re: acroread in UTF-8 locale

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible wrote on 2002-11-25 13:31 UTC:
> Markus Kuhn writes:
> > I did report the third issue (acroread breaking in UTF-8 locales) to
> > Adobe multiple times, but no reaction yet. I suspect it might be an
> > issue with the widget library they use and acroread ought in my opinion
> > to ignore the locale entirely as it has no locale-dependnet
> > functionality anyway.
> 
> In my experience, they have a problem only with the LC_NUMERIC part of
> the locale, and only with some PDF documents. And it can be worked
> around by adding a single line to the 'acroread' shell script.

The present bug in acroread 5 under UTF-8 locales is not fixed by
LC_NUMERIC=C. There was an independent bug in acroread 4 where
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE caused problems with some PDF documents, which I
suspect might be what you refer to. I reported that LC_NUMERIC bug in
Oct 2001 and it got indeed fixed in acroread 5.

Markus

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