diff --git a/gnome-initial-setup/pages/region/cc-region-chooser.c b/gnome-initial-setup/pages/region/cc-region-chooser.c
index 6bcd7ed1e806212440b36e409fe82300780da02f..e84d823779975b8f14fef1eb4876bdcded062581 100644
--- a/gnome-initial-setup/pages/region/cc-region-chooser.c
+++ b/gnome-initial-setup/pages/region/cc-region-chooser.c
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ add_one_region (CcRegionChooser *chooser,
 	gchar *region = NULL;
 	gboolean is_extra;
 	
-	if (!g_str_has_suffix (locale_id, "utf8")) {
+	if (!g_str_has_suffix (locale_id, "utf8") &&
+            !g_str_has_suffix (locale_id, "UTF-8")) {
 		return;
 	}
 
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 7502725ae0882da39912769675398a581bf06026..5ee2fedba03c4d879266b25d5ddd3b3009a0bc11 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ option('vendor-conf-file',
 option('region-page',
        description: 'builds and enables the region page',
        type: 'boolean',
-       value: false
+       value: true
 )
 
 option('cheese',