diff --git a/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend b/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
index 691e09a..f27db65 100644
--- a/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
+++ b/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
@@ -4,10 +4,17 @@ FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://hostname \
             file://hosts \
-	    file://fstab"
+            file://fstab \
+            file://locale.conf \
+            file://vconsole.conf"
+
+FILES:{PN} += "${sysconfdir}/locale.conf \
+               ${sysconfdir}/vconsole.conf"
 
 do_install:append() {
 	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/hostname ${D}${sysconfdir}
 	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/hosts ${D}${sysconfdir}
 	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/fstab ${D}${sysconfdir}
+	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/locale.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}
+	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/vconsole.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}
 }
diff --git a/recipes-core/base-files/files/locale.conf b/recipes-core/base-files/files/locale.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f81fdfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-core/base-files/files/locale.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+LANG=fr_FR.UTF8
diff --git a/recipes-core/base-files/files/vconsole.conf b/recipes-core/base-files/files/vconsole.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27eaebb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-core/base-files/files/vconsole.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+KEYMAP=fr-latin9