diff --git a/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend b/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
index 02d22db..d1d94ac 100644
--- a/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
+
 hostname="citadel"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
+SRC_URI += "file://locale.conf"
+
+do_install_append () {
+    install -m 0755 -d ${D}/storage
+    install -m 0655 ${WORKDIR}/locale.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/locale.conf
+}
diff --git a/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/files/locale.conf b/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/files/locale.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2418b6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-citadel-distro/recipes-core/base-files/files/locale.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+