diff --git a/mysite/_config.php b/mysite/_config.php
index 92f5022..9d51e4c 100644
--- a/mysite/_config.php
+++ b/mysite/_config.php
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
-<?php
-
-global $project;
-$project = 'mysite';
-
-global $database;
-$database = '';
-
-require_once('conf/ConfigureFromEnv.php');
-
-MySQLDatabase::set_connection_charset('utf8');
-
-// Set the current theme. More themes can be downloaded from
-// http://www.silverstripe.org/themes/
-SSViewer::set_theme('simple');
-
-// Enable nested URLs for this site (e.g. page/sub-page/)
-if(class_exists('SiteTree')) SiteTree::enable_nested_urls();
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+<?php
+
+global $project;
+$project = 'mysite';
+
+global $database;
+$database = '';
+
+require_once('conf/ConfigureFromEnv.php');
+
+// Set the current theme. More themes can be downloaded from
+// http://www.silverstripe.org/themes/
+SSViewer::set_theme('simple');
+
+// Set the site locale
+i18n::set_locale('en_US');
+
+// Enable nested URLs for this site (e.g. page/sub-page/)
+if (class_exists('SiteTree')) SiteTree::enable_nested_urls();
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