diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index 08542a743f..76d09af726 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS ?= "en-us en-gb"
 ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION ?= "1"
 LOCALE_UTF8_ONLY ?= "0"
 LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT ?= "1"
+LOCALE_UTF8_IS_DEFAULT_class-nativesdk = "0"
 
 DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT ?= "acl alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda largefile pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g nfc x11"
 DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT ?= "ipv4 ipv6 libc-backtrace libc-big-macros libc-bsd libc-cxx-tests libc-catgets libc-charsets libc-crypt \