diff --git a/picard/tagger.py b/picard/tagger.py
index af577faab..036b40910 100644
--- a/picard/tagger.py
+++ b/picard/tagger.py
@@ -57,13 +57,10 @@ from picard.browser.browser import BrowserIntegration
 from picard.browser.filelookup import FileLookup
 from picard.cluster import Cluster, ClusterList, UnmatchedFiles
 from picard.config import Config
-from picard.disc import Disc, DiscError
+from picard.disc import Disc
 from picard.file import File
 from picard.formats import open as open_file
-from picard.metadata import Metadata
 from picard.track import Track, NonAlbumTrack
-from picard.config import IntOption
-from picard.script import ScriptParser
 from picard.ui.mainwindow import MainWindow
 from picard.plugin import PluginManager
 from picard.puidmanager import PUIDManager
@@ -71,17 +68,13 @@ from picard.acoustidmanager import AcoustIDManager
 from picard.util import (
     decode_filename,
     encode_filename,
-    make_short_filename,
-    replace_win32_incompat,
-    replace_non_ascii,
     sanitize_filename,
     icontheme,
-    webbrowser2,
-    pathcmp,
     partial,
     queue,
     thread,
-    mbid_validate
+    mbid_validate,
+    check_io_encoding
     )
 from picard.webservice import XmlWebService
 
@@ -152,6 +145,8 @@ class Tagger(QtGui.QApplication):
         QtCore.QObject.config = self.config
         QtCore.QObject.log = self.log
 
+        check_io_encoding()
+
         self.setup_gettext(localedir)
 
         self.xmlws = XmlWebService()
diff --git a/picard/util/__init__.py b/picard/util/__init__.py
index f007b23e8..74b4c98e6 100644
--- a/picard/util/__init__.py
+++ b/picard/util/__init__.py
@@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ _io_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
 #// On a glibc system the system locale defaults to ANSI_X3.4-1968
 #// It is very unlikely that one would set the locale to ANSI_X3.4-1968
 #// intentionally
-if _io_encoding == "ANSI_X3.4-1968":
-    print """
+def check_io_encoding():
+    if _io_encoding == "ANSI_X3.4-1968":
+        QtCore.QObject.log.warning("""
 System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames)
 is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done
@@ -138,12 +139,7 @@ are set. Normally the distribution setup tools take care of this.
 
 Translation: Picard will have problems with non-english characters
                in filenames until you change your charset.
-"""
-
-
-def set_io_encoding(encoding):
-    """Sets the encoding used in file names."""
-    _io_encoding = encoding
+""")
 
 def encode_filename(filename):
     """Encode unicode strings to filesystem encoding."""