diff --git a/.builds/ovm-tarball.yml b/.builds/ovm-tarball.yml
index ef21e63534..ce77cccea8 100644
--- a/.builds/ovm-tarball.yml
+++ b/.builds/ovm-tarball.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ packages:
   # test/spec-runner.sh needs this
   - gawk
 
+environment:
+  # matches native/libc.c
+  # not sure if/why we need 3 vars
+  LANG: C.UTF-8
+  LANGUAGE: C.UTF-8
+  LC_ALL: C.UTF-8
+
 secrets:
   - 2678474d-b22b-449f-a19a-16cb403c94cd
 
diff --git a/services/toil-worker.sh b/services/toil-worker.sh
index c5f540625a..57ccacf2e5 100755
--- a/services/toil-worker.sh
+++ b/services/toil-worker.sh
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ ovm-tarball-tasks() {
 
   # (task_name, script, action, result_html)
   cat <<EOF
+dump-locale       services/toil-worker.sh dump-locale    -
 tarball-deps      devtools/release.sh tarball-build-deps -
 spec-deps         test/spec-bin.sh all-steps             -
 dev-all           build/dev.sh all                       -