Implemented PEP 405 (Python virtual environments).
diff --git a/Lib/gettext.py b/Lib/gettext.py
index 256e331..e43f044 100644
--- a/Lib/gettext.py
+++ b/Lib/gettext.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
            'dgettext', 'dngettext', 'gettext', 'ngettext',
            ]
 
-_default_localedir = os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'share', 'locale')
+_default_localedir = os.path.join(sys.base_prefix, 'share', 'locale')
 
 
 def c2py(plural):