Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese --- Solution

[bof]

Like so many other things in life, the problem turned out to be the 
operator, not the system.

The problem arose from the way the fonts were set under KDE. Using the 
Control Center, I tried resetting everything to the default. This did 
not work, but after I reset the Look & Feel -> fonts to default and then 
changed the character set to iso8859-1, and Look & Feel -> Style -> 
Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps, it apparently cleared something 
and Acrobat works as it should. BTW, I do not use anti-aliasing.

I have no idea where the system decided to use the Japanese character 
set, but I found it under my Konsole font settings. This, along with the 
fact that Acroread would run in English if I logged as root, but gave an 
error message "Warning: charset of fontList (ISO8859-15) does not match 
locale (ISO8859-1)" was my clue that something somewhere in the KDE 
settings were awry.

I have no idea how it got this way, for I have never messed with the 
font character sets at all, other than to change the desktop background 
to white and make the icon fonts a little larger.

It would appear that this is one of those cases where the computer set 
itself up without the operator's help, and led to another several hours 
wasted playing with the computer <g>.

To those of you who took time to answer, thanx.

BOF



bof wrote:

> I posted this on the Adobe site, but have not gotten an answer. I'm 
> posting it here in hopes that someone else might have encountered and 
> solved the problem.
>
> I'm running RH 7.2
>
> -------------
>
> I think there's an installation problem with the Linux version of 
> Acroreader 5.0.5, in as much as it seems to install by default the 
> Japanese version. When I run it, here's the error messages:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string 
> "-*-fixed-medium-i-normal-*-*-120-72-72-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-fixed-*-i-*-*-*-120-72-72-*-*-*-*" 
> to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string 
> "-*-helvetica-medium-i-*-*-*-120-72-72-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: charset of fontList (JISX0208.1983-0) does not match locale 
> (ISO8859-1).
>
> All the menus come up in Japanese, which I do not speak/read/write.
>
> This problem occurs with both the version downloaded from the web site 
> and the ftp site.
>
> So can do I do, other than learn Japanese?