help2man is built without NLS support (changing this would require adjusting
flags in help2man and adding an RDEP on p5-Locale-gettext)

Index: src/Makefile.in
--- src/Makefile.in.orig
+++ src/Makefile.in
@@ -2412,7 +2412,6 @@ recode.1: main.c $(top_srcdir)/configure.ac recode$(EX
 	$(AM_V_GEN)if ( touch $@.w && rm -f $@.w; ) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
 	  $(top_builddir)/build-aux/x-to-1 \
 		$(PERL) $(HELP2MAN) \
-		--locale=en_US.UTF-8 \
 		./recode$(EXEEXT) recode.x $@; \
 	fi
 
