On 29 May 2015 at 15:02, Rodrigo Rivas <rodrigorivascosta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback >> ... >> 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). > > I don't think it is locale related, I've used both "en_US.utf8" and > "en_US.UTF-8" in the past without issues. that's half true. glibc normalizes the name of the locale (to lowercase no dashes or underscores - it's a historical thing) so glibc doesn't care. the problem is that some toolkits/apps would extract the charset part of the locale name directly, and not going through the locale functions for that purpose. that has happened in the past, and I wouldn't be supprised if there are toolkits/apps that still do that. > And encoding names are used in many other places. > > My guess is that you have somewhere a XML file with a wrong declaration I haven't seen this, but it's possible. good thing to check. > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF8"?> > > where the proper declaration would be: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > There are some configuration files both in /etc and $HOME that are > read upon initialization of Gtk and Qt (see /etc/fonts/*), so I'd > check those first: > > $ grep -ir 'encoding="utf8' /etc > $ grep -ir 'encoding="utf8' ~/.config -- damjan
