diff --git a/src/daemon/Greeter.cpp b/src/daemon/Greeter.cpp

index ff367ca..d9c11a4 100644

--- a/src/daemon/Greeter.cpp

+++ b/src/daemon/Greeter.cpp

@@ -181,6 +181,18 @@ namespace SDDM {

             env.insert(QStringLiteral("XDG_SESSION_CLASS"), QStringLiteral("greeter"));

             env.insert(QStringLiteral("XDG_SESSION_TYPE"), m_display->sessionType());

+            QFile localeFile(QStringLiteral("/etc/sysconfig/i18n"));

+            if (localeFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text)) {

+                QTextStream in(&localeFile);

+                while (!in.atEnd()) {

+                    QStringList parts = in.readLine().split(QLatin1Char('='));

+                    if (parts.size() >= 2) {

+                        env.insert(parts[0], parts[1]);

+                    }

+                }

+                localeFile.close();

+            }

+

             //some themes may use KDE components and that will automatically load KDE's crash handler which we don't want

             //counterintuitively setting this env disables that handler

             env.insert(QStringLiteral("KDE_DEBUG"), QStringLiteral("1"));