diff --git a/js/contacts.js b/js/contacts.js
index cec1edc9..e94faccf 100644
--- a/js/contacts.js
+++ b/js/contacts.js
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ OC.Contacts = OC.Contacts || {};
 							featureClass: "P",
 							style: "full",
 							maxRows: 12,
-							lang: lang,
+							lang: $elem.data('lang'),
 							name_startsWith: request.term
 						},
 						success: function( data ) {
diff --git a/templates/contacts.php b/templates/contacts.php
index 952e6321..5c68b1a3 100644
--- a/templates/contacts.php
+++ b/templates/contacts.php
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 <div id='notification'></div>
-<script type='text/javascript'>
-	var lang = '<?php echo OCP\Config::getUserValue(OCP\USER::getUser(), 'core', 'lang', 'en'); ?>';
-</script>
 <form class="float" id="file_upload_form" action="<?php echo OCP\Util::linkTo('contacts', 'ajax/uploadphoto.php'); ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="file_upload_target">
 	<input type="hidden" name="requesttoken" value="<?php echo $_['requesttoken'] ?>">
 	<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $_['id'] ?>">
@@ -323,7 +320,7 @@
 		</li>
 	</div>
 	<div class="adr">
-		<li data-element="adr" data-checksum="{checksum}" class="propertycontainer">
+		<li data-element="adr" data-checksum="{checksum}" data-lang="<?php echo OCP\Config::getUserValue(OCP\USER::getUser(), 'core', 'lang', 'en'); ?>" class="propertycontainer">
 			<span class="float display">
 				<label class="meta parameters"></label>
 				<span class="adr">{value}</span>