diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c
index 1703a5b3b68..986cd4d0455 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ static struct ltable ltable[] = {
 	{"KOI8-R", "koi8-r"},
 	{"ISO8859-1", "latin1"},
 	{"ISO8859-15", "latin1"},
+	{"UTF-8", "utf8"},
 	{NULL}
 };
 #endif