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MacOS Troubleshooting

Adobe PDF Library .NET

When using Visual Studio for Mac, if you experience the System.ApplicationException: Failed to initialize locale_ error, try the following:

Open Visual Studio Preferences

Go to the Visual Studio menu and select Preferences.

Scroll to the bottom of the Preferences dialog. Under the Other section, select Terminal.

Disable integrated terminal

Uncheck Enable integrated terminal, press OK, and try running the application again.

If the problem persists, try adding locale environment variables to your project:

Open Project Properties

Go to the Project menu and select Properties.

Open Run Configurations

Under the Run section, select Configurations, then select your active configuration.

Add environment variables

Click the Add button and add the following variables:

  • LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8
  • LANG = en_US.UTF-8

Apply and run

Press OK and try running the application again.

If neither solution resolves the issue, contact evalsupport@datalogics.com for further assistance.