diff --git a/apprise/AppriseLocale.py b/apprise/AppriseLocale.py
index 345c2067ee..b3b0fab2fa 100644
--- a/apprise/AppriseLocale.py
+++ b/apprise/AppriseLocale.py
@@ -203,6 +203,17 @@ def detect_language(lang=None, detect_fallback=True):
                 # no detection enabled; we're done
                 return None
 
+            # Posix lookup
+            lookup = os.environ.get
+            localename = None
+            for variable in ('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE'):
+                localename = lookup(variable, None)
+                if localename:
+                    result = AppriseLocale._local_re.match(localename)
+                    if result and result.group('lang'):
+                        return result.group('lang').lower()
+
+            # Windows handling
             if hasattr(ctypes, 'windll'):
                 windll = ctypes.windll.kernel32
                 try:
@@ -216,16 +227,7 @@ def detect_language(lang=None, detect_fallback=True):
                     # Fallback to posix detection
                     pass
 
-            # Posix lookup
-            lookup = os.environ.get
-            localename = None
-            for variable in ('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE'):
-                localename = lookup(variable, None)
-                if localename:
-                    result = AppriseLocale._local_re.match(localename)
-                    if result and result.group('lang'):
-                        return result.group('lang').lower()
-
+            # Linux Handling
             try:
                 # Acquire our locale
                 lang = locale.getlocale()[0]
diff --git a/test/test_locale.py b/test/test_locale.py
index f2436620a4..a16f178505 100644
--- a/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/test/test_locale.py
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ def test_detect_language_windows_users():
 
     if hasattr(ctypes, 'windll'):
         from ctypes import windll
+
     else:
         windll = mock.Mock()
         # 4105 = en_CA
@@ -166,8 +167,7 @@ def test_detect_language_windows_users():
 
 def test_detect_language_using_env():
     """
-    When enabling CI testing on Windows, those tests did not produce the
-    correct results. They may want to be reviewed.
+    Test the reading of information from an environment variable
     """
 
     # The below accesses the windows fallback code and fail
@@ -203,7 +203,12 @@ def test_detect_language_locale(mock_getlocale):
     """
     # Handle case where getlocale() can't be detected
     mock_getlocale.return_value = None
-    assert AppriseLocale.AppriseLocale.detect_language() is None
+    with environ('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE'):
+        assert AppriseLocale.AppriseLocale.detect_language() is None
+
+    mock_getlocale.return_value = (None, None)
+    with environ('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE'):
+        assert AppriseLocale.AppriseLocale.detect_language() is None
 
     # if detect_language and windows env fail us, then we don't
     # set up a default language on first load