diff --git a/puphpet/files/exec-always/empty b/puphpet/files/exec-always/empty
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diff --git a/puphpet/files/exec-always/set-local.sh b/puphpet/files/exec-always/set-local.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+echo "Setting locale to fix encoding"
+sh -c "echo 'LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' >> /etc/environment"
+echo "done setting locale"