diff --git a/python-autopage.changes b/python-autopage.changes
index 8a39127..31d4004 100644
--- a/python-autopage.changes
+++ b/python-autopage.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct  8 07:22:31 UTC 2024 - Daniel Garcia <daniel.garcia@suse.com>
+
+- Force $LANG env to UTF-8 to fix tests for Leap 16.0
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb  5 04:53:08 UTC 2024 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-autopage.spec b/python-autopage.spec
index 1746abd..797f248 100644
--- a/python-autopage.spec
+++ b/python-autopage.spec
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ in a pager (like `less`)
 
 %check
 unset LESS
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 rm -v autopage/tests/test_end_to_end.py
 %pytest