2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index 0c6d018365..ce42bde4fd 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ KEEPUIMAGE ??= "yes"
 IMAGE_LINGUAS ?= "en-us en-gb"
 ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION ?= "1"
 LOCALE_UTF8_ONLY ?= "0"
+LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT ?= "1"
 
 DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT ?= "alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g nfc x11"
 DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT ?= "ipv4 ipv6 libc-backtrace libc-big-macros libc-bsd libc-cxx-tests libc-catgets libc-charsets libc-crypt \
diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index a74da7769a..1e09b6577e 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ LICENSE_PATH[doc] = "Path to additional licenses used during the build."
 LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE[doc] = "Defines the kernel type to be used in assembling the configuration."
 LINUX_VERSION[doc] = "The Linux version from kernel.org on which the Linux kernel image being built using the OpenEmbedded build system is based. You define this variable in the kernel recipe."
 LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION[doc] = "A string extension compiled into the version string of the Linux kernel built with the OpenEmbedded build system. You define this variable in the kernel recipe."
+LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT[doc] = "If set, locale names are renamed such that those lacking an explicit encoding (e.g. en_US) will always be UTF-8, and non-UTF-8 encodings are renamed to, e.g., en_US.ISO-8859-1. Otherwise, the encoding is specified by glibc's SUPPORTED file. Not supported for precompiled locales."
 LOG_DIR[doc] = "Specifies the directory to which the OpenEmbedded build system writes overall log files. The default directory is ${TMPDIR}/log"
 
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