diff --git a/gramps/gen/utils/image.py b/gramps/gen/utils/image.py
index 799ebc286..b854ca3ec 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/utils/image.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/utils/image.py
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ import tempfile
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from ..constfunc import conv_to_unicode
+from ..const import GRAMPS_LOCALE as glocale
+_ = glocale.translation.gettext
 
 def crop_percentage_to_subpixel(width, height, crop):
     """
diff --git a/gramps/plugins/lib/libhtmlbackend.py b/gramps/plugins/lib/libhtmlbackend.py
index d10e96b34..7006350e5 100644
--- a/gramps/plugins/lib/libhtmlbackend.py
+++ b/gramps/plugins/lib/libhtmlbackend.py
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ from gramps.gen.plug.docbackend import DocBackend
 from gramps.plugins.lib.libhtml import Html, xml_lang
 from gramps.gen.errors import ReportError
 
+from gramps.const import GRAMPS_LOCALE as glocale
+_ = glocale.translation.gettext
+
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #