$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= I'm mistaken, I didn't run this before. Howver, ... $ pluma ** (pluma:1291): WARNING **: Could not load theme icon gtk-home: Icon 'gtk-home' not present in theme (pluma:1291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback [snip] $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 pluma ** (pluma:1334): WARNING **: Could not load theme icon gtk-home: Icon 'gtk-home' not present in theme (pluma:1334): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback [snip]
Hey Ralf, Comment in (#) all ISO-8859-1 locales and leave alone all UTF-8 locales, in /etc/locale.gen type LANG=en_US.UTF-8 as is and run sudo locale-gen , logout & login (kill X), then try running Claws. Cheers