diff --git a/filesystem/Makefile b/filesystem/Makefile
index 48f28d9..c9540e9 100644
--- a/filesystem/Makefile
+++ b/filesystem/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FS_FILES=be-latin1.bmap build.sh fstab group hosts inittab issue klogd.run Makefile passwd profile rcS root shadow simple.script syslogd.run udhcpc.run ../busybox ../bzImage
+FS_FILES=be-latin1.bmap build.sh fstab group hosts inittab issue klogd.run Makefile passwd profile rcS root shadow simple.script syslogd.run udhcpc.run ../busybox ../bzImage locale.sh
 
 ../fs.tar: build.sh $(FS_FILES)
 	fakeroot ./build.sh
diff --git a/filesystem/build.sh b/filesystem/build.sh
index 96ba433..6c487df 100755
--- a/filesystem/build.sh
+++ b/filesystem/build.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ ln -s /proc/self/mounts etc/mtab
 for f in shadow; do
   install -m600 "$srcdir"/$f etc/
 done
+install -m755 "$srcdir"/locale.sh etc/profile.d/locale.sh
 
 # setup /var
 for d in cache local opt log/old lib/misc empty; do
diff --git a/filesystem/locale.sh b/filesystem/locale.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11b7dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/filesystem/locale.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ -z "$LANG" ]; then
+  if [ -n "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] && [ -r "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/locale.conf" ]; then
+    . "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/locale.conf"
+  elif [ -n "$HOME" ] && [ -r "$HOME/.config/locale.conf" ]; then
+    . "$HOME/.config/locale.conf"
+  elif [ -r /etc/locale.conf ]; then
+    . /etc/locale.conf
+  fi
+fi
+
+LANG=${LANG:-C}
+export LANG
+[ -n "$LC_CTYPE" ]          && export LC_CTYPE
+[ -n "$LC_NUMERIC" ]        && export LC_NUMERIC
+[ -n "$LC_TIME" ]           && export LC_TIME
+[ -n "$LC_COLLATE" ]        && export LC_COLLATE
+[ -n "$LC_MONETARY" ]       && export LC_MONETARY
+[ -n "$LC_MESSAGES" ]       && export LC_MESSAGES
+[ -n "$LC_PAPER" ]          && export LC_PAPER
+[ -n "$LC_NAME" ]           && export LC_NAME
+[ -n "$LC_ADDRESS" ]        && export LC_ADDRESS
+[ -n "$LC_TELEPHONE" ]      && export LC_TELEPHONE
+[ -n "$LC_MEASUREMENT" ]    && export LC_MEASUREMENT
+[ -n "$LC_IDENTIFICATION" ] && export LC_IDENTIFICATION