diff --git a/config/locale.cfg b/config/locale.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index f74adb3c..00000000
--- a/config/locale.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-// localization tools
-
-persistidents 0
-
-// retrieves the localized version of a string based on the current locale
-_ = [
-	result (gettext $arg1)
-]
-
-persistidents 1
diff --git a/source/src/main.cpp b/source/src/main.cpp
index 56cb36f0..7e6824da 100644
--- a/source/src/main.cpp
+++ b/source/src/main.cpp
@@ -1263,7 +1263,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     downloaddemomenu = addmenu("Download demo", NULL, true);
 
     exec("config/scontext.cfg");
-    exec("config/locale.cfg");
     exec("config/keymap.cfg");
     execfile("config/mapmodelattributes.cfg");
     exec("config/menus.cfg");