diff --git a/tests/test-benchmark-q4_0-matmult.c b/tests/test-benchmark-q4_0-matmult.c
index 5285d4741..f06a76932 100644
--- a/tests/test-benchmark-q4_0-matmult.c
+++ b/tests/test-benchmark-q4_0-matmult.c
@@ -214,8 +214,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)  {
     printf("Iteration;NThreads; SizeX; SizeY; SizeZ; Required_FLOPS; Elapsed_u_Seconds; FLOPS_per_u_Second\n");
     printf("==============================================================================================\n");
     
-    setlocale(LC_ALL,"de_DE_UTF8");
-    
     for (int i=0;i<10;i++) {
     
         long long int start = ggml_time_us();