diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1f6c6c2dee0cce2332329946050d06b7d4f1ae7f..b586cded433ba169f266f8246302275334612048 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ build-local-repository:
     - merge_requests
   script:
     - echo "Build OK"
+    - export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+    - export LANG=C.UTF-8
     - osm -vvv repo-index --origin . --destination vnf-catalog
     # - LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 oLANG=C.UTF-8 osm -vvv repo-index --origin . --destination vnf-catalog
     # - |