diff --git a/libreoffice.changes b/libreoffice.changes
index 860c27f..992997b 100644
--- a/libreoffice.changes
+++ b/libreoffice.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jan  5 03:59:38 UTC 2020 - Michael Gorse <mgorse@suse.com>
+
+- Set LANG during check; needed for a UTF8-related test to pass. 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan  2 10:05:16 UTC 2020 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libreoffice.spec b/libreoffice.spec
index 7f94815..c9126ff 100644
--- a/libreoffice.spec
+++ b/libreoffice.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package libreoffice
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -1114,6 +1114,7 @@ export NOCONFIGURE=yes
 make verbose=t build-nocheck
 
 %check
+export LANG=C.UTF-8
 # Run tests only on x86_64 and ppc64le as they are resource hogs
 %ifarch x86_64 ppc64le
 # safeguard jarfires that can get magically overriden by the make