diff --git a/src/SystemInfo.cpp b/src/SystemInfo.cpp
index daa8f0e..ea8235b 100644
--- a/src/SystemInfo.cpp
+++ b/src/SystemInfo.cpp
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 using namespace Hyprutils::String;
 
 CSystemInternals::CSystemInternals(QObject* parent) : QObject(parent) {
-    setenv("LANG", "en_US.UTF-8", true);
+    setenv("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8", true);
 
     // gather data from os-release
     if (auto data = readFile("/etc/os-release")) {