diff --git a/po/de.po b/po/de.po
index 31a674e88..31fdbd1ee 100644
--- a/po/de.po
+++ b/po/de.po
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "PO-Revision-Date: 2026-05-06 15:58+0200\n"
 "Last-Translator: Nils Görs <weechatter@arcor.de>\n"
 "Language-Team: German - Germany <weechat-dev@nongnu.org>\n"
-"Language: de_DE\n"
+"Language: de\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"