docs: def init_localization():
      '''prepare l10n'''
      locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') # User's preferred locale, according to environment
  
      # Use first two characters of country code, defaulting to 'en' in the absence of a preference
      loc = locale.getlocale()
      lang = loc[0][0:2] if loc[0] else 'en'
      filename = "res/messages_%s.mo" % lang
  
      try:
          logging.debug( "Opening message file %s for locale %s", filename, loc[0] )
          trans = gettext.GNUTranslations(open( filename, "rb" ) )
      except IOError:
          logging.debug( "Locale not found. Using default messages" )
          trans = gettext.NullTranslations()
  
      trans.install()