diff --git a/minidlna.c b/minidlna.c
index 6c5110a..724f8ea 100644
--- a/minidlna.c
+++ b/minidlna.c
@@ -468,9 +468,21 @@ static int strtobool(const char *str)
 static void init_nls(void)
 {
 #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
-	setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
-	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.utf8");
-	DPRINTF(E_DEBUG, L_GENERAL, "Using locale dir %s\n", bindtextdomain("minidlna", getenv("TEXTDOMAINDIR")));
+	const char *messages, *ctype, *locale_dir;
+
+	ctype = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
+	if (!ctype || !strcmp(ctype, "C"))
+		ctype = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.utf8");
+	if (!ctype)
+		DPRINTF(E_WARN, L_GENERAL, "Unset locale\n");
+	else if (!strstr(ctype, "utf8") && !strstr(ctype, "UTF8") &&
+		 !strstr(ctype, "utf-8") && !strstr(ctype, "UTF-8"))
+		DPRINTF(E_WARN, L_GENERAL, "Using unsupported non-utf8 locale '%s'\n", ctype);
+	messages = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
+	if (!messages)
+		messages = "unset";
+	locale_dir = bindtextdomain("minidlna", getenv("TEXTDOMAINDIR"));
+	DPRINTF(E_DEBUG, L_GENERAL, "Using locale dir '%s' and locale langauge %s/%s\n", locale_dir, messages, ctype);
 	textdomain("minidlna");
 #endif
 }