diff --git a/docker/gitian-host/bash_profile b/docker/gitian-host/bash_profile
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+export USE_LXC=1
+export GITIAN_HOST_IP=10.0.3.2
+export LXC_GUEST_IP=10.0.3.5
+
+## see bugs https://github.com/devrandom/gitian-builder/issues/56 and https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285
+for ENV in $(env | grep ^LC | awk -F= '{ print $1 }'); do
+        unset $ENV
+done
+
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8