diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.service b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.service
index 87680cecc4..040164bf52 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.service
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.service
@@ -66,5 +66,5 @@ if [ ! $(pidof vdr.bin) ];then
     . $driver_dvb
   done
     
-  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$ADDON_DIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" vdr.bin $VDR_ARG &>$LOG_FILE
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$ADDON_DIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" vdr.bin $VDR_ARG &>$LOG_FILE
 fi