diff --git a/emacs.spec b/emacs.spec
index 57358f4..5f40c56 100644
--- a/emacs.spec
+++ b/emacs.spec
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ fi
 %endif
 
 %build
+echo include_info=%include_info
+rpm -qf /usr/share/info/info.info.{gz,xz,bz2} 2>/dev/null
 # make sure that the binaries work (pagesize on build must be the same as on target, bnc#726769)
 %if %suse_version >= 1110
 %ifarch ppc ppc64 ia64
@@ -327,7 +329,7 @@ LDFLAGS=
   LARGE="-DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000 \
 	 -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 \
 "
-   LANG=POSIX; LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1
+   LANG=POSIX; LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 export CC CFLAGS LANG LC_CTYPE LDFLAGS
  PREFIX="--prefix=%{_prefix} \
 	 --mandir=%{_mandir} \