Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try
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 <pcolbeck@bashq.org> 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, james@soon.co.uk 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
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