diff --git a/pyfpdb/fpdb.pyw b/pyfpdb/fpdb.pyw
index af94f83a..548003de 100755
--- a/pyfpdb/fpdb.pyw
+++ b/pyfpdb/fpdb.pyw
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 #along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #In the "official" distribution you can find the license in agpl-3.0.txt.
 
+import L10n
+_ = L10n.get_translation()
+
 import os
 import sys
 import re