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

[Damjan Georgievski]

>>>   error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback
>>
>>What's the output of just "locale", as the user you have the problem as
>
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ locale
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
> LC_ALL=
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$

so, your locale is set somewhere else, probablly .profile .bashrc or .xprofile.

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).

-- 
damjan