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

[Martti Kühne]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 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 at archlinux ~]$ locale -a
>   C
>   de_DE
>   de_DE at euro
>   de_DE.iso88591
>   de_DE.iso885915 at euro
>   de_DE.utf8
>   deutsch
>   en_GB
>   en_GB.iso88591
>   en_GB.utf8
>   en_US
>   en_US.iso88591
>   en_US.utf8
>   german
>   POSIX
>   [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat ~/.config/locale.conf
>   cat: /home/rocketmouse/.config/locale.conf: No such file or directory
>   [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo nano /etc/locale.conf
>   [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
>   LANG=en_US.utf8
>   [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo shutdown -r now
>
> It doesn't make a difference, I still get the error messages, when
> running a new session.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf


I haven't seen you running locale-gen there. Do you expect the reboot
to do that?

cheers!
mar77i