diff --git a/quantumclient/__init__.py b/quantumclient/__init__.py
index 5558fdb97..034d66eaf 100644
--- a/quantumclient/__init__.py
+++ b/quantumclient/__init__.py
@@ -15,9 +15,3 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 #    @author: Tyler Smith, Cisco Systems
-
-import gettext
-
-
-# gettext must be initialized before any quantumclient imports
-gettext.install('quantumclient', unicode=1)
diff --git a/quantumclient/common/__init__.py b/quantumclient/common/__init__.py
index 7e695ff08..1415c50a3 100644
--- a/quantumclient/common/__init__.py
+++ b/quantumclient/common/__init__.py
@@ -14,3 +14,11 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 # @author: Somik Behera, Nicira Networks, Inc.
+
+import gettext
+
+t = gettext.translation('quantumclient', fallback=True)
+
+
+def _(msg):
+    return t.ugettext(msg)
diff --git a/quantumclient/common/exceptions.py b/quantumclient/common/exceptions.py
index 734a49894..22ac67a49 100644
--- a/quantumclient/common/exceptions.py
+++ b/quantumclient/common/exceptions.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 
+from quantumclient.common import _
+
 """
 Quantum base exception handling.
 """
diff --git a/quantumclient/shell.py b/quantumclient/shell.py
index 3b8ae5c84..21f64cf8f 100644
--- a/quantumclient/shell.py
+++ b/quantumclient/shell.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ from quantumclient.common import exceptions as exc
 from quantumclient.common import utils
 
 
-gettext.install('quantum', unicode=1)
 VERSION = '2.0'
 QUANTUM_API_VERSION = '2.0'
 
@@ -564,6 +563,7 @@ class QuantumShell(App):
 
 
 def main(argv=sys.argv[1:]):
+    gettext.install('quantumclient', unicode=1)
     try:
         return QuantumShell(QUANTUM_API_VERSION).run(argv)
     except exc.QuantumClientException:
diff --git a/quantumclient/tests/unit/__init__.py b/quantumclient/tests/unit/__init__.py
index e69de29bb..353303fb4 100644
--- a/quantumclient/tests/unit/__init__.py
+++ b/quantumclient/tests/unit/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Copyright 2013 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+#
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+import gettext
+
+# Because we installed '_' for quantum cli in shell.py, this help unittest
+# have definition of '_'
+gettext.install('quantumclient', unicode=1)
diff --git a/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py b/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py
index 305ea1e5f..9c045fc92 100644
--- a/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py
+++ b/quantumclient/v2_0/client.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import time
 import urllib
 
 from quantumclient.client import HTTPClient
+from quantumclient.common import _
 from quantumclient.common import exceptions
 from quantumclient.common.serializer import Serializer