diff --git a/docs/source/locale.rst b/docs/source/locale.rst
index 7a981ac..a7944e8 100644
--- a/docs/source/locale.rst
+++ b/docs/source/locale.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ This is used for thousands separators in long numbers and decimal separators in
 
 If you wish to use a specific regional numbering preference while retaining a different base system language (e.g., English language with German-style numbering), pass the desired locale as a variable before launching DZGUI:
 
-``LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 ./dzgui``
+``LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 ./dzgui``
 
 If you intend to use this frequently, you could wrap the above in a script or alias.
diff --git a/dzgui/util/localize.py b/dzgui/util/localize.py
index fd4b5c6..2e514f6 100644
--- a/dzgui/util/localize.py
+++ b/dzgui/util/localize.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import os
 import locale
 
 
@@ -13,5 +12,3 @@ def number(num: int | float) -> str:
 
 def set_locale() -> None:
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
-    user_loc = loc if (loc := os.getenv("LC_CTYPE")) else "en_US.UTF-8"
-    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, user_loc)