diff --git a/distributions/LibreELEC/kernel_options b/distributions/LibreELEC/kernel_options
index 7a8d295e3b..acc9b650a7 100644
--- a/distributions/LibreELEC/kernel_options
+++ b/distributions/LibreELEC/kernel_options
@@ -63,3 +63,11 @@ CONFIG_KCMP=y
 CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=n
 CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF=y
 CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y
+
+# Native language support
+CONFIG_NLS=y
+CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
+CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
+CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
+CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
+CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y