diff --git a/base/htop/htop.conf b/base/htop/htop.conf
index f824ef2ca..3e926b699 100644
--- a/base/htop/htop.conf
+++ b/base/htop/htop.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../htop/htop.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2008 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2013 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -18,3 +18,7 @@ if atstage cross; then
 fi
 
 var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' '-ldl'
+
+if [ "$SDECFG_DISABLE_NLS" = 1 ]; then
+	var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--disable-unicode"
+fi