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invalid UTF-8 in ubuntu 13.04

Asked by leon antoniadis

After trying both 32 and 64 bit versions of 13.04 and found them working correctly I installed (on a new disk) the 32 bit because
I could not make my Epson scanner 2580 to work. Upon restarting I noticed "invalid UTF-8"on the right corner and whatever you
open appears as XXX XXX....The same applies to the 64bit version. The laptop is a Toshiba Sattelite C855-1QC and I am writing through the old disk. Please help

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug. Raring is not ready and not stable. You will get issues up to and even a few weeks after release. If you need an OS that works then I recommend you install Ubuntu 12.04. It is LTS so will be supported even after Raring is EOL.

It's a pre-release. What did you expect....

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leon antoniadis (leon-antoniadis) said : 		#2

I have been using 12.10 with no problem whatsoever. I simply needa bigger disk and thought It was a good opportunity to have
a clean install. Will clone the old disk and wait. Thanks

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#3

I'm getting UTF8 errors in Raring as well. Apart from the error in the date-indicator that OP mentioned, I'm also seeing it in columns in various programs and Quod Libet keeps getting an error from it as well ("UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xd4 in position 0: invalid continuation byte").

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rrich1974 (richardsdma) said : 		#4

i get this error in network manager applet. i get wierd characters and even "label empty"...

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rrich1974 (richardsdma) said : 		#5

how come that the problem is solved? it still exist in 13.10....