diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 60b47dd89..b7e236d16 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CHANGELOG RoundCube Webmail
 2008/11/15 (alec)
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 - Fix big memory consumption and speed up searching on servers without SORT capability
+- Fix setting locale to tr_TR, ku and az_AZ (#1485470) 
 
 2008/11/12 (alec)
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diff --git a/program/include/rcmail.php b/program/include/rcmail.php
index 7eade3223..9690d8d29 100644
--- a/program/include/rcmail.php
+++ b/program/include/rcmail.php
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ class rcmail
 
     // set localization
     setlocale(LC_ALL, $_SESSION['language'] . '.utf8', 'en_US.utf8');
+
+    // workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18556 
+    if (in_array($_SESSION['language'], array('tr_TR', 'ku', 'az_AZ'))) 
+      setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US' . '.utf8'); 
   }