diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 80c052d7b4..da01db952f 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ when upgrading from a version of rust-sdl2 to another.
 
 [PR #1427](https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/pull/1427) **BREAKING CHANGE** Add system locale support. A new event type `Event::LocaleChanged` has been added.
 
+[PR #1479](https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/pull/1479) Fix get_locale in locale.rs for platforms where c_char is u8.
+
 ### v0.37.0
 
 [PR #1406](https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/pull/1406) Update bindings to SDL 2.0.26, add Event.is\_touch() for mouse events, upgrade wgpu to 0.20 in examples
diff --git a/src/sdl2/locale.rs b/src/sdl2/locale.rs
index d879d7608d..d072f6b12f 100644
--- a/src/sdl2/locale.rs
+++ b/src/sdl2/locale.rs
@@ -75,18 +75,18 @@ unsafe fn get_locale(ptr: *const sys::SDL_Locale) -> Option<Locale> {
         .to_string_lossy()
         .into_owned();
 
-    let region = try_get_string(sdl_locale.country);
+    let region = if sdl_locale.country.is_null() {
+        None
+    } else {
+        Some(
+            std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(sdl_locale.country)
+                .to_string_lossy()
+                .into_owned(),
+        )
+    };
 
     Some(Locale {
         lang,
         country: region,
     })
 }
-
-unsafe fn try_get_string(ptr: *const i8) -> Option<String> {
-    if ptr.is_null() {
-        None
-    } else {
-        Some(std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(ptr).to_string_lossy().into_owned())
-    }
-}