diff --git a/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin b/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin
index 61353b0751..df833a0450 100755
--- a/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin
+++ b/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ set_timezone_and_locales()
 		TZDATA=$(echo ${RES} | cut -d"," -f1)
 		STATE=$(echo ${RES} | cut -d"," -f2)
 		LOCALES=$(grep territory /usr/share/i18n/locales/* | grep "$STATE" | cut -d ":" -f 1 | cut -d "/" -f 6 |  xargs -I{} grep {} /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep "\.UTF-8" | cut -d " " -f 1)
+		# UTF8 is not present everywhere so check again in case it returns empty value
+		[[ -z "$LOCALES" ]] && LOCALES=$(grep territory /usr/share/i18n/locales/* | grep "$STATE" | cut -d ":" -f 1 | cut -d "/" -f 6 |  xargs -I{} grep {} /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | cut -d " " -f 1)
 		CCODE=$(echo ${RES} | cut -d"," -f3 | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | xargs)
 		options=(`echo ${LOCALES}`);