title: ImportError: cannot import name normalize
body: <p>I tried to use djangos i18n and therefor had to install gettext. Now I'm getting this awkward error any time I try to start my application:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/var/www/mydjangoproject/manage.py", line 8, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
      from optparse import OptionParser, NO_DEFAULT
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 418, in &lt;module&gt;
      _builtin_cvt = { "int" : (_parse_int, _("integer")),
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 581, in gettext
      return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 545, in dgettext
      codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 480, in translation
      mofiles = find(domain, localedir, languages, all=1)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 437, in find
      for nelang in _expand_lang(lang):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 131, in _expand_lang
      from locale import normalize
  
    ImportError: cannot import name normalize
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The library locale.py is present and I can import it. Django 1.4 is running under Python 2.7.2+. Any Ideas?</p>