diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-installer/lib/block-device.sh b/pkg/de-p1st-installer/lib/block-device.sh
index e1f6435..b4933fb 100644
--- a/pkg/de-p1st-installer/lib/block-device.sh
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-installer/lib/block-device.sh
@@ -121,8 +121,11 @@ function format() {
   echo "Formatting boot partition ${BOOT_PART} ..."
   mkfs.fat -F32 "${BOOT_PART}" || return $?
 
+  # Note:
+  #  FDE: GRUB does support LUKS2 since this commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=365e0cc3e7e44151c14dd29514c2f870b49f9755
+  #  -> Using "--type luks1" is no longer required.
   echo "Creating encrypted luks partition ${LUKS_PART} ..."
-  printf "%s" "${LUKS_PWD}" | cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks1 \
+  printf "%s" "${LUKS_PWD}" | cryptsetup luksFormat \
     --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --key-size 512 --hash sha512 \
     --iter-time 10000 --use-random "${LUKS_PART}" || return $?
 
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-locale/.install b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f26f581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/.install
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+post_install() {
+  holo apply
+  locale-gen
+}
+
+post_upgrade() {
+  holo apply
+  locale-gen
+}
+
+post_remove() {
+  holo apply
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-locale/PKGBUILD b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56cf52f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Maintainer: Daniel Langbein <daniel@systemli.org>
+_pkgname=locale
+_reponame=arch
+pkgname="de-p1st-$_pkgname"
+pkgver=0.0.1
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="locale and timezone"
+arch=('any')
+url="https://codeberg.org/privacy1st/${_reponame}"
+license=('MIT')
+groups=()
+depends=('holo')
+makedepends=('git')
+optdepends=()
+provides=()
+conflicts=()
+replaces=()
+backup=()
+options=()
+install='.install'
+changelog=
+source=("git+${url}.git")
+noextract=()
+sha256sums=('SKIP')
+
+package() {
+  cd "${_reponame}/pkg/${pkgname}"
+
+  install -Dm0644 locale.conf              "$pkgdir"/etc/locale.conf
+  install -Dm0544 locale.gen.holoscript    "$pkgdir"/usr/share/holo/files/"$pkgname"/etc/locale.gen.holoscript
+
+  ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin "$pkgdir"/etc/localtime
+}
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-locale/README.md b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69e80b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# locale
+
+## locale.conf
+
+* Archwiki: [Locale](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale)
+  * -> run `locale -a` to list enabled locales and check for error messages such as `locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory`
+
+* (German) Archwiki: [complete locale.conf example](https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Locale.conf)
+
+## locale.gen
+
+1) Edit `/etc/locale.gen`
+2) Run `locale-gen`
+
+From Archwiki: [locale#Generating_locales](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/locale#Generating_locales)
+
+> locale-gen also runs with every update of glibc. [1](https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/glibc/trunk/glibc.install#L2)
+
+## timezone
+
+Archwiki: [Installation_guide#Time_zone](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Time_zone)
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-locale/locale.conf b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/locale.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5697659
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/locale.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LANGUAGE=en_US
+LC_COLLATE=C
+LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
+LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
+# LC_NUMERIC: Formatting rules for non monetary numeric values.
+LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
+# LC_CTYPE: This category determines the interpretation of byte
+#           sequences as characters (e.g., single versus multibyte
+#           characters), character classifications (e.g., alphabetic
+#           or digit), and the behavior of character classes.
+LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
+# LC_MESSAGES: This category affects the language in which messages are
+#               displayed
+# Note: This affects the language used by many programs (XFCE4, xournal++, etc.)
+LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
+LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
+# LC_NAME: Change settings that describe the formats used to address persons.
+LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
+# LC_ADDRESS: Change settings that describe the formats (e.g., postal
+#             addresses) used to describe locations and geography-
+#             related items.
+LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
+LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
+LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-locale/locale.gen.holoscript b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/locale.gen.holoscript
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71973cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-locale/locale.gen.holoscript
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# stdin: default config
+# stdout: modified config
+
+echo 'de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
+# de_DE ISO-8859-1
+# de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
+en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
+# en_US ISO-8859-1'