On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@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 I haven't seen you running locale-gen there. Do you expect the reboot to do that? cheers! mar77i