The commented out gettext in fpdb.pyw and HHC should work, but doesnt

I tried having those lines in a plain script but same problem - translation file not found

pyfpdb/HandHistoryConverter.py

@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ import Hand
 from Exceptions import FpdbParseError
 import Configuration
 
-import gettext
-gettext.install('fpdb')
-
+#import gettext
+#trans=gettext.translation("fpdb", "/home/steffen/poker/fpdb-dev/pyfpdb/locale", languages=["de"])
+#trans.install()
 
 import pygtk
 import gtk

pyfpdb/fpdb.pyw

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ import sys
 import re
 import Queue
 
+#import gettext
+#trans=gettext.translation("fpdb", "locale", ["en_GB"])
+#trans.install()
+
 # if path is set to use an old version of python look for a new one:
 # (does this work in linux?)
 if os.name == 'nt' and sys.version[0:3] not in ('2.5', '2.6') and '-r' not in sys.argv: