diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 942c7b029..51250eb2a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ On the road to 2023.03
 Environment changes:
 - implemented emergency shell with messages and with big font detection support
 - implemented new zram routine for all boot types
-- added kms to archboot_init, to avoid font flickering introduced 
+- added kms to archboot_init, to avoid font flickering, introduced 
   in kernel 6.0.x series
 - added archboot specific speed patches to mkinitcpio functions
 - only use KEXEC_LOAD it's way faster than KEXEC_FILE_LOAD
diff --git a/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh b/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
index 2f30b4edb..d1a4454de 100644
--- a/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
+++ b/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
@@ -191,4 +191,13 @@ _set_hostname() {
     echo 'archboot' > "${1}/etc/hostname"
 }
 
+_enable_common_locales() {
+    exho "Enable common UTF-8 locales..."
+    _LOCALES="C en_US de_DE es_ES fr_FR pt_PT ru_RU"
+    for i in "${_LOCALES}"; do
+        echo "${i}.UTF-8"  >> "${1}"/etc/locale.gen
+    done
+    ${_NSPAWN} "${1}" locale-gen &>/dev/null
+}
+
 # vim: set ft=sh ts=4 sw=4 et:
diff --git a/usr/lib/archboot/run/container.sh b/usr/lib/archboot/run/container.sh
index 5d50ec2e9..8a8630d69 100755
--- a/usr/lib/archboot/run/container.sh
+++ b/usr/lib/archboot/run/container.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ if echo "${_BASENAME}" | grep -qw "${_RUNNING_ARCH}"; then
     _clean_mkinitcpio "${1}"
     _clean_cache "${1}"
     _install_archboot "${1}" || exit 1
+    _enable_common_locales "${1}" || exit 1
     _clean_cache "${1}"
     _umount_special "${1}" || exit 1
     _clean_container "${1}"
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ else
         _pacman_parameters "${1}" "use_binfmt"
         _install_base_packages "${1}" "use_binfmt" || exit 1
         _install_archboot "${1}" "use_binfmt" || exit 1
+        _enable_common_locales "${1}" || exit 1
         _clean_mkinitcpio "${1}"
         _clean_container "${1}" 2>/dev/null
     else