Re: [arch-general] "error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback"

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error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback

What's the output of just "locale", as the user you have the problem as

[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL= [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$

so, your locale is set somewhere else, probablly .profile .bashrc or .xprofile. it seems for these apps it MUST be en_US.UTF-8 - that's the canonical name of the encoding UTF-8 (with the dash). -- damjan