diff --git a/config-templates/config.php b/config-templates/config.php
index 1b81d05e301b396165f705e121c84a46d96eb1f3..a147f2e5fe34c386c077d5659a3dc5daf9bca5d4 100644
--- a/config-templates/config.php
+++ b/config-templates/config.php
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ $config = array(
      * 'secretsalt' can be any valid string of any length.
      *
      * A possible way to generate a random salt is by running the following command from a unix shell:
-     * tr -c -d '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' </dev/urandom | dd bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null;echo
+     * LC_CTYPE=C tr -c -d '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' </dev/urandom | dd bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null;echo
      */
     'secretsalt' => 'defaultsecretsalt',