diff --git a/projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.aarch64.conf b/projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
index e570936aa7..33c86968b7 100644
--- a/projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
+++ b/projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
@@ -6240,7 +6240,7 @@ CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
 # CONFIG_NLS_MAC_INUIT is not set
 # CONFIG_NLS_MAC_ROMANIAN is not set
 # CONFIG_NLS_MAC_TURKISH is not set
-# CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set
+CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
 # CONFIG_DLM is not set
 # CONFIG_UNICODE is not set
 CONFIG_IO_WQ=y
diff --git a/projects/Qualcomm/devices/Dragonboard/linux/linux.aarch64.conf b/projects/Qualcomm/devices/Dragonboard/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
index 76c438d689..06a1ac869c 100644
--- a/projects/Qualcomm/devices/Dragonboard/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
+++ b/projects/Qualcomm/devices/Dragonboard/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
@@ -6443,7 +6443,7 @@ CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
 # CONFIG_NLS_MAC_INUIT is not set
 # CONFIG_NLS_MAC_ROMANIAN is not set
 # CONFIG_NLS_MAC_TURKISH is not set
-# CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set
+CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
 # CONFIG_DLM is not set
 # CONFIG_UNICODE is not set
 CONFIG_IO_WQ=y