Django 1.8 has a very nice feature where trying to call ugettext before the

i18n infrastructure has been started will result in an error (as opposed to

before, where it would just return the English string, thereby skipping the

translation).
In our case, we had a couple different problems. In reviews/fields.py we were

just using ugettext where we ought be be using ugettext_lazy. In the auth

forms, we had a couple places where we used ugettext_lazy but then

immediately did a string format operation on the result, which evaluated the

lazy string. I've moved these into the __init__ method instead.

Ran unit tests.
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