@pgram1 did you read the comment [above](https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757#issuecomment-362868750) and also [this](https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757#issuecomment-426463375) one.
If you have a solution that does not involve environment variables please contribute it, but please don't just keep demanding "somebody" does it for you.
As per https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1757#issuecomment-362858124, I created a bat script that batch renames locale folders, as Geany seems to fallback to LANG=en if it finds no locale directories.
```bat
@Echo Off
REM Run script with Administrator privileges
REM Put the locale path here (typically "C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\share\locale") CD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\share\locale"
REM This renames all locale folders except special stylings to foo-unused FOR /D %%G in ("*") DO if not %%~nxG==en@boldquot if not %%~nxG==en@quot if not %%~nxG==en@shaw Ren %%~nxG %%~nxG-unused Echo Locales are disabled. PAUSE
```
Quite hacky but I guess it works...