diff --git a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/configure_locale.sh b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/configure_locale.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6619c6cf11b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/configure_locale.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+fix_locale() {
+  cat >> /etc/default/locale  << EOF
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+EOF
+  cat >> /etc/locale.gen  << EOF
+en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
+EOF
+
+  locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
+}
+
+fix_locale
diff --git a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/definition.rb b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/definition.rb
index 3513d4678a9..be0b4036ce0 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/definition.rb
+++ b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/definition.rb
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config = {
         'build_time.sh',
         'apt_upgrade.sh',
         'configure_grub.sh',
+        'configure_locale.sh',
         'configure_login.sh',
         'postinstall.sh',
         'cleanup.sh',
diff --git a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh
index aaa023e1850..893b5214fb1 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh
+++ b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh
@@ -140,18 +140,6 @@ fix_hostname() {
   sed -i '/127.0.1.1/d' /etc/hosts
 }
 
-fix_locale() {
-  cat >> /etc/default/locale  << EOF
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
-EOF
-  cat >> /etc/locale.gen  << EOF
-en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
-EOF
-
-  locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
-}
-
 # This is actually a bug in the conntrackd package. The comment in the conf file says stats logging is off by default but the parameter is set to on.
 # After a couple weeks logrotate will rotate the conntrackd-stats.log file ans start conntracking even if we don't want it to (on non-redundant routers for instance).
 fix_conntrackd() {
@@ -178,7 +166,6 @@ do_fixes() {
   fix_nameserver
   fix_acpid
   fix_hostname
-  fix_locale
   fix_conntrackd
   fix_vhdutil
   fix_modules