diff --git a/configs/releng/build.sh b/configs/releng/build.sh
index 12e7636..d2923d9 100755
--- a/configs/releng/build.sh
+++ b/configs/releng/build.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ make_customize_root_image() {
         mkdir -p ${work_dir}/root-image/etc/pacman.d
         wget -O ${work_dir}/root-image/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/
         sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" ${work_dir}/root-image/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+        chroot ${work_dir}/root-image /usr/sbin/locale-gen
         : > ${work_dir}/build.${FUNCNAME}
     fi
 }
diff --git a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/locale.gen b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/locale.gen
index ee50b2b..7e4e293 100644
--- a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/locale.gen
+++ b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/locale.gen
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 #en_PH ISO-8859-1  
 #en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8  
 #en_SG ISO-8859-1  
-#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
+en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
 #en_US ISO-8859-1  
 #en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8  
 #en_ZA ISO-8859-1  
diff --git a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/archiso b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/archiso
index 1429516..1bd315d 100755
--- a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/archiso
+++ b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/archiso
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ do_makeuser ()
 
 do_locale_gen ()
 {
-    stat_busy "Generating locales..."
-    sed -i "s/#\(${LOCALE/[@.]*}\)/\1/" /etc/locale.gen
-    /usr/sbin/locale-gen > /dev/null
-    stat_done
+    if [[ ${LOCALE} != "en_US.UTF-8" ]]; then
+        stat_busy "Generating locales..."
+            sed -i "s/#\(${LOCALE/[@.]*}\)/\1/" /etc/locale.gen
+            /usr/sbin/locale-gen > /dev/null
+        stat_done
+    fi
 }
 
 # If an alternate console was specified on the kernel command line,