Pat Thanks for the e-mail. Unfortunately yours was the only responses I received. In fact I am using this reply as a rather lame excuse to post this question a second time.
Needless to say I would be grateful for any pointer to a solution for the acroread/Acrobat problem described below. On 11 March 2002 12:57:04 Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Hi > >Did you get a reply to this question ? I am having exactly the same issue and >guess waht I am in th UK as well. If you got a solution I would love to know >what it is. > >Thanks > >Pat > >On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello >> >> I am experiencing a problem with acroread (Acobat reader)v.4.05-5 on >> what I believe is a typical Debian GNU/Linux 3 (Woody/Testing) system >> running on a Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 (P-Pro SMP). >> >> Acroread does not display any menu text at all (just gray line boxes >> where the text should be) and when it is started from an xterm the >> following error message is displayed: >> >> Warning: charset of fontList (ISO10646-1) does not match locale >> (ISO8859-1). >> >> I suspect this has come about because recently I had to change the >> user and root locales to ISO8859-1 (using dpkg-reconfigure locales)to >> enable recent releases of multi-gnome-terminal (currently v1.3.13) to >> run on my system. >> >> Reluctantly (because ISO8859-1 seems to be ideal for a UK based Debian >> box) I tried to set both the user and root locales to ISO10646-1. But >> this option is not available using dpkg-reconfigure locales. My system >> does have the following relevant looking file: >> >> /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ISO_10646.gz >> >> But so far I have been unable to discover if it can be used to change >> the locales. >> >> I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to sort this problem >> out, since I need to use acroread to read work related docs. >> >> James -- Personalised email by http://another.com
