diff --git a/dlls/kernel32/locale.c b/dlls/kernel32/locale.c
index 00006d472a9..fe2129b50f5 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel32/locale.c
+++ b/dlls/kernel32/locale.c
@@ -4226,7 +4226,6 @@ void LOCALE_Init(void)
            mac_cptable->info.codepage, unix_cp );
 
     setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");  /* FIXME: oleaut32 depends on this */
-    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C"); /* Fixes issues when tr_TR.UTF-8 locale is used */
 }
 
 static HANDLE NLS_RegOpenKey(HANDLE hRootKey, LPCWSTR szKeyName)