diff --git a/usr.bin/ee/Makefile b/usr.bin/ee/Makefile
index ffa47b93239..22367772b62 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ee/Makefile
+++ b/usr.bin/ee/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LDADD=	-lncurses
 
 WARNS?=	2
 
-NLS=	en_US.US-ASCII fr_FR.ISO8859-1 de_DE.ISO8859-1 pl_PL.ISO8859-2 \
+NLS=	C fr_FR.ISO8859-1 de_DE.ISO8859-1 pl_PL.ISO8859-2 \
 	uk_UA.KOI8-U pt_BR.ISO8859-1 ru_RU.KOI8-R hu_HU.ISO8859-2
 
 NLSLINKS_en_US.US-ASCII= en_US.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-15