diff --git a/dba/create-database.sh b/dba/create-database.sh
index 8e87787e..6199a035 100755
--- a/dba/create-database.sh
+++ b/dba/create-database.sh
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ fi
 if [ "$ADMINPW" = "" ] ; then
   # OK.  They didn't supply one, and pwgen didn't work, so we hack something
   # together from /dev/random ...
+  export LC_ALL=C
   ADMINPW="`dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null | tr -c -d "a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Y0-9" | cut -c2-9`"
 fi