diff --git a/src/intl/libintl.c b/src/intl/libintl.c
index fd8d6197..a77d286c 100644
--- a/src/intl/libintl.c
+++ b/src/intl/libintl.c
@@ -24,40 +24,40 @@ int current_charset = -1;
  * will anyway need a table of real translations. */
 struct language languages[] = {
 	{N_("System"), "system"},
-	{N_("English"), "en_GB"},
+	{N_("English"), "en_GB.UTF-8"},
 
-	{N_("Afrikaans"), "af_ZA"},
-	{N_("Belarusian"), "be_BY"},
-	{N_("Brazilian Portuguese"), "pt_BR"},
-	{N_("Bulgarian"), "bg_BG"},
-	{N_("Catalan"), "ca_ES"},
-	{N_("Croatian"), "hr_HR"},
-	{N_("Czech"), "cs_CZ"},
-	{N_("Danish"), "da_DK"},
-	{N_("Dutch"), "nl_NL"},
-	{N_("Estonian"), "et_EE"},
-	{N_("Finnish"), "fi_FI"},
-	{N_("French"), "fr_FR"},
-	{N_("Galician"), "gl_ES"},
-	{N_("German"), "de_DE"},
-	{N_("Greek"), "el_GR"},
-	{N_("Hungarian"), "hu_HU"},
-	{N_("Icelandic"), "is_IS"},
-	{N_("Indonesian"), "id_ID"},
-	{N_("Italian"), "it_IT"},
-	{N_("Japanese"), "ja_JP"},
-	{N_("Lithuanian"), "lt_LT"},
-	{N_("Norwegian"), "no_NO"},
-	{N_("Polish"), "pl_PL"},
-	{N_("Portuguese"), "pt_PT"},
-	{N_("Romanian"), "ro_RO"},
-	{N_("Russian"), "ru_RU"},
-	{N_("Serbian"), "sr_RS"},
-	{N_("Slovak"), "sk_SK"},
-	{N_("Spanish"), "es_ES"},
-	{N_("Swedish"), "sv_SE"},
-	{N_("Turkish"), "tr_TR"},
-	{N_("Ukrainian"), "uk_UA"},
+	{N_("Afrikaans"), "af_ZA.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Belarusian"), "be_BY.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Brazilian Portuguese"), "pt_BR.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Bulgarian"), "bg_BG.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Catalan"), "ca_ES.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Croatian"), "hr_HR.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Czech"), "cs_CZ.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Danish"), "da_DK.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Dutch"), "nl_NL.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Estonian"), "et_EE.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Finnish"), "fi_FI.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("French"), "fr_FR.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Galician"), "gl_ES.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("German"), "de_DE.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Greek"), "el_GR.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Hungarian"), "hu_HU.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Icelandic"), "is_IS.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Indonesian"), "id_ID.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Italian"), "it_IT.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Japanese"), "ja_JP.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Lithuanian"), "lt_LT.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Norwegian"), "no_NO.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Polish"), "pl_PL.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Portuguese"), "pt_PT.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Romanian"), "ro_RO.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Russian"), "ru_RU.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Serbian"), "sr_RS.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Slovak"), "sk_SK.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Spanish"), "es_ES.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Swedish"), "sv_SE.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Turkish"), "tr_TR.UTF-8"},
+	{N_("Ukrainian"), "uk_UA.UTF-8"},
 
 	{NULL, NULL},
 };