For my german box changing the locale failed:
´´´´/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
setup/functions.sh: line 6: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)´´´´

see #206 and 4e6d572d
closes #220
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