diff --git a/appends/oe-core/base-files/profile b/appends/oe-core/base-files/profile
index 4d2d78f..6151e7b 100644
--- a/appends/oe-core/base-files/profile
+++ b/appends/oe-core/base-files/profile
@@ -18,16 +18,21 @@ if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then
 	unset i
 fi
 
-# Note on LANG: On the way thud -> warrior something started to set
-# LANG="C.UTF-8". Could not find which package to blame but it is not a good
-# idea:
+# Note on LANG: Since systemd 240 LANG="C.UTF-8" is set if no /etc/locale.conf
+# is found and mentions that 'This locale is supported by various
+# distributions' and 'upstream glibc is going to make it available too' [1].
+# 
+# [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-December/041852.html
+#
+# Doing so is not a good idea:
+#
 # * german Umlaute cannot be displayed anymore
 # * at least menulibre does not start anymore and complains with
 #   | File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 390, in configure_application_actions
 #   |    label=_('Add _Launcher���'),
 #   | UnicodeDecodeError: 'locale' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 13: decoding error
 #
-# locale fallback for UTF8
+# so set locale fallback - all our images contain en_US
 if [ -z "$LANG" -o "$LANG"='C.UTF-8' ]; then
     LANG="en_US.utf8"
     export LANG