diff --git a/pyfpdb/windows_make_bats.py b/pyfpdb/windows_make_bats.py
index 6b1a58c0..45804899 100755
--- a/pyfpdb/windows_make_bats.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/windows_make_bats.py
@@ -17,17 +17,8 @@
 
 # create .bat scripts in windows to try out different gtk dirs
 
-import locale
-lang=locale.getdefaultlocale()[0][0:2]
-if lang=="en":
-    def _(string): return string
-else:
-    import gettext
-    try:
-        trans = gettext.translation("fpdb", localedir="locale", languages=[lang])
-        trans.install()
-    except IOError:
-        def _(string): return string
+import L10n
+_ = L10n.get_translation()
 
 try: