diff --git a/.github/workflows/colcon.yml b/.github/workflows/colcon.yml
index fc74814a695..33e81bd00fc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/colcon.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/colcon.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
              
     steps:
       - name: Setup ROS
-        uses: ros-tooling/setup-ros@0.0.25
+        uses: ros-tooling/setup-ros@0.0.26
         with:
           required-ros-distributions: foxy
       - name: Install Iceoryx Dependencies
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y cmake libacl1-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config
           mkdir -p src/iceoryx
           cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/src/iceoryx
+          sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
 
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2