edward
As a workaround, set this environment variable prior to starting Houdiniexport LC_ALL=C
I have created a regular expression to automatically edit the .desktop
sudo sed -i 's/\(^Exec=\)\(.*\)/\1sh -c \"LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \&\& \2\"/g' /usr/share/applications/sesi_houdinifx16.0.504.20.desktop