diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/0003-opkg-set-locale-from-system-environment-variables.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/0003-opkg-set-locale-from-system-environment-variables.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71240ec8fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/0003-opkg-set-locale-from-system-environment-variables.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From 712895b1914bf63ee4d669863bfd106814329076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Piotr=20=C5=81obacz?=
+Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:26:09 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] opkg: set locale from system environment variables
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+A C program inherits its locale environment variables when it starts up.
+This happens automatically. However, these variables do not automatically
+control the locale used by the library functions, because ISO C says that
+all programs start by default in the standard ‘C’ locale.
+
+Fixes warnings:
+Warning when reading ar archive header: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale. (errno=84)
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://groups.google.com/g/opkg-devel/c/16kgZfJ26mQ]
+
+[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Setting-the-Locale.html
+
+Signed-off-by: Piotr Łobacz
+---
+ src/opkg.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/opkg.c b/src/opkg.c
+index 544c58a..0c729ff 100644
+--- a/src/opkg.c
++++ b/src/opkg.c
+@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
+ #include
+ #include
+ #include
++#include
+
+ #include "opkg_conf.h"
+ #include "opkg_cmd.h"
+@@ -408,6 +409,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+ if (opkg_conf_init())
+ goto err0;
+
++ setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+ opkg_config->verbosity = NOTICE;
+
+ opts = args_parse(argc, argv);
+--
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.6.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.6.2.bb
index d7dc6ab715..3b5d51d74a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.6.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.6.2.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz
file://opkg.conf \
file://0001-opkg_conf-create-opkg.lock-in-run-instead-of-var-run.patch \
file://0002-Add-options-to-enable-support-for-acl-and-xattr.patch \
+ file://0003-opkg-set-locale-from-system-environment-variables.patch \
file://run-ptest \
"