@elextr I mentioned the file browser plugin as the most probable cause but it can be anywhere in geany because utils_get_utf8_from_locale() is used everywhere to convert locale to UTF-8 and this function unfortunately doesn't guarantee the result is always UTF-8.
But of course even though I saw this message coming from Geany it doesn't mean it cannot originate in Scintilla in your case.
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