diff --git a/dotfiles/.profile b/dotfiles/.profile
index 9be96c70..88ebb4fa 100644
--- a/dotfiles/.profile
+++ b/dotfiles/.profile
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ export EDITOR="vim"
 export MANPAGER="less -X"
 
 # Prefer US English and use UTF-8
-if type locale-gen &> /dev/null; then
+if [ -e locale-gen ]; then
   export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
 fi
 export LANG="en_US"