--- toybox-0.8.12.orig/main.c	2025-01-18 21:20:33.000000000 +0100
+++ toybox-0.8.12/main.c	2025-04-07 09:40:53.646935573 +0200
@@ -179,13 +179,6 @@ void toy_singleinit(struct toy_list *whi
     toys.old_umask = umask(0);
     if (!(which->flags & TOYFLAG_UMASK)) umask(toys.old_umask);
 
-    // Try user's locale, but if that isn't UTF-8 merge in a UTF-8 locale's
-    // character type data. (Fall back to en_US for MacOS.)
-    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
-    if (strcmp("UTF-8", nl_langinfo(CODESET)))
-      uselocale(newlocale(LC_CTYPE_MASK, "C.UTF-8", 0) ? :
-        newlocale(LC_CTYPE_MASK, "en_US.UTF-8", 0));
-
     if (which->flags & TOYFLAG_LINEBUF) btype = _IOLBF;
     else if (which->flags & TOYFLAG_NOBUF) btype = _IONBF;
     else buf = xmalloc(4096);