diff --git a/t/loc_tools.pl b/t/loc_tools.pl
index 35629865d452..38aa1772cb34 100644
--- a/t/loc_tools.pl
+++ b/t/loc_tools.pl
@@ -462,6 +462,10 @@ ($;$)
         _trylocale("C", \@categories, \@Locale, $allow_incompatible);
         _trylocale("POSIX", \@categories, \@Locale, $allow_incompatible);
 
+        if ($Config{d_has_C_UTF8} && $Config{d_has_C_UTF8} eq 'true') {
+            _trylocale("C.UTF-8", \@categories, \@Locale, $allow_incompatible);
+        }
+
         # There's no point in looking at anything more if we know that
         # setlocale will return success on any garbage or non-garbage name.
         return sort @Locale