diff --git a/testing/chroot.sh b/testing/chroot.sh
index 1aa7a77..6268f50 100755
--- a/testing/chroot.sh
+++ b/testing/chroot.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZuser /etc/localtime
 
 hwclock --systohc
 
+echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
 echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
 echo "en_US ISO-8859-1" >> /etc/locale.gen
 locale-gen