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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
index b45c863005..5b0beab7c2 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
@@ -160,8 +160,25 @@ with a supported Ubuntu or Debian Linux distribution::
 
    $ sudo apt install &UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL;
 
+You also need to ensure you have the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale enabled::
+
+   $ locale --all-locales | grep en_US.utf8
+
+If this is not the case, you can reconfigure the ``locales`` package to add it
+(requires an interactive shell)::
+
+   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
+
 .. note::
 
+   -  If you are not in an interactive shell, ``dpkg-reconfigure`` will
+      not work as expected. To add the locale you will need to edit
+      ``/etc/locale.gen`` file to add/uncomment the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale.
+      A naive way to do this as root is::
+
+         $ echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
+         $ locale-gen
+
    -  If your build system has the ``oss4-dev`` package installed, you
       might experience QEMU build failures due to the package installing
       its own custom ``/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h`` on the Debian