Dmenu mode does not appear, String literal not valid UTF-8 string Please help.....

[DarkIce000]

darkice@darkice-Inspiron-3542:~$ rofi -dmenu
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:39:34: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:40:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:41:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:42:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:43:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:44:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:45:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:46:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:47:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:48:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: too many errors
xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: failed to parse file

these are the errors i am getting when i try to run the rofi in dmenu mode. in the terminal.
i have installed rofi and i3 wm in linux mint 22

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  .-MMMM`..-:::::::-..`MMMM-.          OS: Linux Mint 21.2 x86_64 
.:MMMM.:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:.MMMM:.        Host: Inspiron 3542 

-MMM-M---MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.MMM- Kernel: 5.15.0-86-generic
:MMM:MM :MMMM:....::-...-MMMM:MMM: Uptime: 17 mins :MMM:MMM :MM: `` `` :MMM:MMM: Packages: 2502 (dpkg)
.MMM.MMMM :MM. -MM. .MM- MMMM.MMM. Shell: bash 5.1.16
:MMM:MMMM :MM. -MM- .MM: MMMM-MMM: Resolution: 1366x768
:MMM:MMMM :MM. -MM- .MM: MMMM:MMM: WM: i3
:MMM:MMMM :MM. -MM- .MM: MMMM-MMM: Theme: Mint-Y-Dark [GTK2/3]
.MMM.MMMM :MM:--:MM:--:MM: MMMM.MMM. Icons: Mint-Y-Sand [GTK2/3]
:MMM:MMM- -MMMMMMMMMMMM- -MMM-MMM: Terminal: gnome-terminal
:MMM:MMM: :MMM:MMM: CPU: Intel i3-4005U (4) @ 1.700GHz
.MMM.MMMM:--------------:MMMM.MMM. GPU: Intel Haswell-ULT
'-MMMM.-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-.MMMM-' Memory: 1991MiB / 3816MiB

[DaveDavenport]

This is an external library that throws an error. See #814