diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 2ed236b18..bc67d9368 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ release = PIL.__version__
 #
 # This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
 # Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+language = "en"
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used: