diff --git a/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst b/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst
index cd60672c0e..d8906e738f 100644
--- a/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst
+++ b/doc/source/configuration/settings.rst
@@ -2504,3 +2504,20 @@ After the whole settings process has gone through, TEMPLATE_LOADERS will be:
     TEMPLATE_LOADERS += (
         ('django.template.loaders.cached.Loader', CACHED_TEMPLATE_LOADERS),
     ) + tuple(ADD_TEMPLATE_LOADERS)
+
+LOCALE_PATHS
+------------
+
+.. versionadded:: 16.0.0(Train)
+
+.. seealso::
+
+    `Django's LOCALE_PATHS documentation
+    <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#locale-paths>`_
+
+Default: Absolute paths for `horizon/locale`, `openstack_auth/locale` and
+`openstack_dashboard/locale` directories.
+
+Django uses relative paths by default so it causes localization issues
+depending on your runtime settings. To avoid this we recommend to use absolute
+paths for directories with locales.
diff --git a/openstack_dashboard/settings.py b/openstack_dashboard/settings.py
index 5af70cffee..9d963ea7de 100644
--- a/openstack_dashboard/settings.py
+++ b/openstack_dashboard/settings.py
@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ import warnings
 from django.utils.translation import pgettext_lazy
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
+import openstack_auth
+
+import horizon
 from horizon.utils.escape import monkeypatch_escape
 
+import openstack_dashboard
 from openstack_dashboard import enabled
 from openstack_dashboard import exceptions
 from openstack_dashboard.local import enabled as local_enabled
@@ -523,7 +527,15 @@ HORIZON_COMPRESS_OFFLINE_CONTEXT_BASE = {
 if DEBUG:
     logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
 
-
+# NOTE(e0ne): Set absolute paths for directories with localization.
+# Django doesn't work well for Taiwanese locale with relative paths
+# wich are used by default and I can't figure out at the moment why it
+# works in this way. We don't use default Django templates, so it should
+# be safe to have such defaults
+LOCALE_PATHS = [
+    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(m.__file__)), 'locale')
+    for m in (horizon, openstack_dashboard, openstack_auth)
+]
 # Here comes the Django settings deprecation section. Being at the very end
 # of settings.py allows it to catch the settings defined in local_settings.py
 # or inside one of local_settings.d/ snippets.