I get the idea, but the localisation really disappeared a short time before servers shutdowns, just a fews months before.
I'm not sure of the update we were at, but it was probably i23.
I don't know how the game is coded, if the translation have been removed from i24 or just disabled with remaining traces in the game files...
Even if nobody own a i23 client, maybe with the original CDs we could hope a partial translation :/