diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb
index 76f5dc7624..e45445073f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause | GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=7c3949a631240cb6c31c50f3eb696077"
 
 DEPENDS = "libusb udev"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:libc-glibc = " glibc-gconv-utf-16"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig