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 -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
