diff --git a/intl/dcigettext.c b/intl/dcigettext.c
index 7886ac9545..27063886d2 100644
--- a/intl/dcigettext.c
+++ b/intl/dcigettext.c
@@ -1560,8 +1560,12 @@ guess_category_value (int category, const char *categoryname)
      2. The precise output of some programs in the "C" locale is specified
 	by POSIX and should not depend on environment variables like
 	"LANGUAGE" or system-dependent information.  We allow such programs
-        to use gettext().  */
-  if (strcmp (locale, "C") == 0)
+        to use gettext().
+     Ignore LANGUAGE and its system-dependent analogon also if the locale is
+     set to "C.UTF-8" or, more generally, to "C.<encoding>", because that's
+     the by-design behaviour for glibc, see
+     <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/C.UTF-8>.  */
+  if (locale[0] == 'C' && (locale[1] == '\0' || locale[1] == '.'))
     return locale;
 
   /* The highest priority value is the value of the 'LANGUAGE' environment