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diff --git a/src/script/lua_api/l_mainmenu.cpp b/src/script/lua_api/l_mainmenu.cpp
index 6417d1e..832069f 100644
--- a/src/script/lua_api/l_mainmenu.cpp
+++ b/src/script/lua_api/l_mainmenu.cpp
@@ -980,8 +980,15 @@ int ModApiMainMenu::l_download_file(lua_State *L)
 int ModApiMainMenu::l_gettext(lua_State *L)
 {
        const char* str = luaL_checkstring(L, 1);
-       str = gettext(str);
-       lua_pushstring(L, str);
+
+       wchar_t *wideString = wgettext(str);
+
+       size_t len = wcslen(wideString);
+       size_t maxUtf8len = 4 * len + 1;  // Each wchar_t encodes to a max of 4 bytes
+       char *utf8String = new char[maxUtf8len];
+       wcstombs(utf8String, wideString, maxUtf8len);
+
+       lua_pushstring(L, utf8String);
 
        return 1;
 }