diff --git a/parl/remote/scripts.py b/parl/remote/scripts.py
index 71677d692878eef63f65b0ff1054cb6233b0d7a5..efcb680ff4833c47693a42bf891113fefd010012 100644
--- a/parl/remote/scripts.py
+++ b/parl/remote/scripts.py
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ os.environ['XPARL'] = 'True'
 
 # Solve `Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was configured
 # to use ASCII as encoding for the environment` error.
-locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8")
+try:
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8")
+except:
+    pass
 
 #TODO: this line will cause error in python2/macOS
 if sys.version_info.major == 3: