chroot: use UTF8 and set LC_*

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/common b/scripts/common
index efd00b9..7a0093a 100644
--- a/scripts/common
+++ b/scripts/common
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ on_chroot() {
 		mount --bind /sys "${ROOTFS_DIR}/sys"
 	fi
 
+    # run as root 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' enable 'en_US.UTF-8'
+    # perhaps run as root 'update-locale LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8'
+    export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
+    export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+    export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+
 	setarch linux32 capsh --drop=cap_setfcap "--chroot=${ROOTFS_DIR}/" -- -e "$@"
 }
 export -f on_chroot