diff --git a/debian/generate-locale.sh b/debian/generate-locale.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+locale-gen en_US.UTF-8