diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/patches/vdr-03_no-locale-support.patch b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/patches/vdr-03_no-locale-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dbb333db56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr/patches/vdr-03_no-locale-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From 092b87b7789206f041de68016fb9a900577a6681 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Stefan Saraev <stefan@saraev.ca>
+Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:40:36 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] no locale support
+
+---
+ vdr.c |    4 ----
+ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
+index ba59f07..c1b0541 100644
+--- a/vdr.c
++++ b/vdr.c
+@@ -637,10 +637,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+      cCharSetConv::SetSystemCharacterTable(CodeSet);
+      }
+ 
+-  // Initialize internationalization:
+-
+-  I18nInitialize(LocaleDirectory);
+-
+   // Main program loop variables - need to be here to have them initialized before any EXIT():
+ 
+   cEpgDataReader EpgDataReader;
+-- 
+1.7.2.5
+