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

29 May 2015

      Hi,

for some time past I get

  error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback

when running GTK2 and GTK3 apps, Pluma, Claws Mail, Evolution. Other
apps, perhaps Qt apps, might be affected too.

There are no issues when using those apps, the terminal just shows
these messages.

  [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ locale -a
  C
  de_DE
  de_DE@euro
  de_DE.iso88591
  de_DE.iso885915@euro
  de_DE.utf8
  deutsch
  en_GB
  en_GB.iso88591
  en_GB.utf8
  en_US
  en_US.iso88591
  en_US.utf8
  german
  POSIX
  [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat ~/.config/locale.conf
  cat: /home/rocketmouse/.config/locale.conf: No such file or directory
  [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo nano /etc/locale.conf
  [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
  LANG=en_US.utf8
  [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo shutdown -r now

It doesn't make a difference, I still get the error messages, when
running a new session.

Regards,
Ralf

Ralf Mardorf

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