def _convert_string_array(data, encoding, itemsize=None):

    # encode if needed
    if encoding is not None and len(data):
        data = Series(data.ravel()).str.encode(
            encoding).values.reshape(data.shape)

    # create the sized dtype
    if itemsize is None:
        itemsize = lib.max_len_string_array(com._ensure_object(data.ravel()))

    data = np.asarray(data, dtype="S%d" % itemsize)
    return data
This will enable the given language just for this block.
dataset/ETHPy150Open pydata/pandas/pandas/io/pytables.py/_convert_string_array--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open AppScale/appscale/AppServer/lib/django-1.5/django/templatetags/i18n.py/language