diff --git a/openpower/configs/barreleye_defconfig b/openpower/configs/barreleye_defconfig
index b338c49..dfafe69 100644
--- a/openpower/configs/barreleye_defconfig
+++ b/openpower/configs/barreleye_defconfig
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="hvc0"
 BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_WHITELIST="C de en es fr it ja ko pt_BR ru zh_CN zh_TW"
 BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 ko_KR.UTF-8 pt_BR.UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8 zh_CN.UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8"
+BR2_SYSTEM_ENABLE_NLS=y
 BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="../openpower/overlay"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="../openpower/scripts/fixup-target-var ../openpower/scripts/firmware-whitelist"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y