--- a/Common/codepage.c
+++ b/Common/codepage.c
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@
     setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
 
     /* Figure out the locale code set (character set encoding). */
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+    codeset_name = "UTF-8";
+#else
     codeset_name = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
+#endif
 # if defined(__CYGWIN__) /*[*/
     /*
      * Cygwin's locale support is quite limited.  If the locale