diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 24f4d44..a8fda6a 100755
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import hashlib
 import inspect
 import itertools
 import json
-import locale
 import os
 import re
 import socket
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ from depicts.model import (
 )
 from depicts.pager import Pagination, init_pager
 
-locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8")
 user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:32.0) Gecko/20160101 Firefox/32.0"
 
 app = Flask(__name__)