diff --git a/src/modules/locale/LocaleConfiguration.cpp b/src/modules/locale/LocaleConfiguration.cpp
index ca6316fc5..096d0dc4e 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/LocaleConfiguration.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/LocaleConfiguration.cpp
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ LocaleConfiguration::fromLanguageAndLocation( const QString& languageLocale,
         // FIXME: this might be useless if we already filter out non-UTF8 locales
         foreach ( QString line, linesForLanguage )
         {
-            if ( line.contains( "UTF-8" ) )
+            if ( line.contains( "UTF-8", Qt::CaseInsensitive ) ||
+                 line.contains( "utf8", Qt::CaseInsensitive ) )
                 linesForLanguageUtf.append( line );
         }
 
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/LocalePage.cpp b/src/modules/locale/LocalePage.cpp
index ed166ea35..88b030ffe 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/LocalePage.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/LocalePage.cpp
@@ -365,7 +365,8 @@ LocalePage::init( const QString& initialRegion,
     // because it's not 1995.
     for ( auto it = m_localeGenLines.begin(); it != m_localeGenLines.end(); )
     {
-        if ( !it->contains( "UTF-8", Qt::CaseInsensitive ) )
+        if ( !it->contains( "UTF-8", Qt::CaseInsensitive ) &&
+             !it->contains( "utf8", Qt::CaseInsensitive ) )
             it = m_localeGenLines.erase( it );
         else
             ++it;