diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 8ab35c53..9ab270d0 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ set_target_properties( exiv2lib_int PROPERTIES
 
 target_compile_definitions(exiv2lib
     PUBLIC
-    EXV_LOCALEDIR="../${CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALEDIR}"
-    #EXV_LOCALEDIR="${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LOCALEDIR}"
+    EXV_LOCALEDIR="/../${CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALEDIR}"
 )
 
 if ( UNIX AND CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "FreeBSD" )
diff --git a/src/exiv2.cpp b/src/exiv2.cpp
index b4950734..7c54e401 100644
--- a/src/exiv2.cpp
+++ b/src/exiv2.cpp
@@ -29,12 +29,13 @@
 #include <exiv2/exiv2.hpp>
 
 // include local header files which are not part of libexiv2
-#include "exiv2app.hpp"
-#include "getopt.hpp"
 #include "actions.hpp"
-#include "utils.hpp"
 #include "convert.hpp"
-#include "i18n.h"      // NLS support.
+#include "exiv2app.hpp"
+#include "futils.hpp"
+#include "getopt.hpp"
+#include "i18n.h"  // NLS support.
+#include "utils.hpp"
 #include "xmp_exiv2.hpp"
 
 #include <iostream>
@@ -128,7 +129,8 @@ int main(int argc, char* const argv[])
 {
 #ifdef EXV_ENABLE_NLS
     setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
-    bindtextdomain(EXV_PACKAGE_NAME, EXV_LOCALEDIR);
+    const std::string localeDir = Exiv2::getProcessPath() + EXV_LOCALEDIR;
+    bindtextdomain(EXV_PACKAGE_NAME, localeDir.c_str());
     textdomain(EXV_PACKAGE_NAME);
 #endif
 
diff --git a/src/types.cpp b/src/types.cpp
index f4862d3f..17ab051e 100644
--- a/src/types.cpp
+++ b/src/types.cpp
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@
 // *****************************************************************************
 // included header files
 #include "types.hpp"
-#include "i18n.h"                               // for _exvGettext
-#include "unused.h"
-#include "safe_op.hpp"
 #include "enforce.hpp"
+#include "futils.hpp"
+#include "i18n.h"  // for _exvGettext
+#include "safe_op.hpp"
+#include "unused.h"
 
 // + standard includes
 #ifdef EXV_UNICODE_PATH
@@ -727,7 +728,9 @@ const char* _exvGettext(const char* str)
     static bool exvGettextInitialized = false;
 
     if (!exvGettextInitialized) {
-        bindtextdomain(EXV_PACKAGE_NAME, EXV_LOCALEDIR);
+        //bindtextdomain(EXV_PACKAGE_NAME, EXV_LOCALEDIR);
+        const std::string localeDir = Exiv2::getProcessPath() + EXV_LOCALEDIR;
+        bindtextdomain(EXV_PACKAGE_NAME, localeDir.c_str());
 # ifdef EXV_HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET
         bind_textdomain_codeset (EXV_PACKAGE_NAME, "UTF-8");
 # endif