diff --git a/django/contrib/contenttypes/views.py b/django/contrib/contenttypes/views.py
index 5085a2fa2c0..8d8e1c7a3e3 100644
--- a/django/contrib/contenttypes/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/contenttypes/views.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from django import http
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 from django.contrib.sites.models import Site, get_current_site
 from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 
 def shortcut(request, content_type_id, object_id):
     """
@@ -11,17 +12,18 @@ def shortcut(request, content_type_id, object_id):
     try:
         content_type = ContentType.objects.get(pk=content_type_id)
         if not content_type.model_class():
-            raise http.Http404("Content type %s object has no associated model"
-                               % content_type_id)
+            raise http.Http404(_(u"Content type %(ct_id)s object has no associated model") %
+                               {'ct_id': content_type_id})
         obj = content_type.get_object_for_this_type(pk=object_id)
     except (ObjectDoesNotExist, ValueError):
-        raise http.Http404("Content type %s object %s doesn't exist"
-                           % (content_type_id, object_id))
+        raise http.Http404(_(u"Content type %(ct_id)s object %(obj_id)s doesn't exist") %
+                           {'ct_id': content_type_id, 'obj_id': object_id})
+
     try:
         get_absolute_url = obj.get_absolute_url
     except AttributeError:
-        raise http.Http404("%s objects don't have a get_absolute_url() method"
-                           % content_type.name)
+        raise http.Http404(_("%(ct_name)s objects don't have a get_absolute_url() method") %
+                           {'ct_name': content_type.name})
     absurl = get_absolute_url()
 
     # Try to figure out the object's domain, so we can do a cross-site redirect
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/sitemaps/views.py b/django/contrib/gis/sitemaps/views.py
index eb2454c3895..3a9acad7b04 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/sitemaps/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/sitemaps/views.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from django.contrib.gis.db.models.fields import GeometryField
 from django.db import connections, DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS
 from django.db.models import get_model
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_str
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 
 from django.contrib.gis.shortcuts import render_to_kml, render_to_kmz
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ def sitemap(request, sitemaps, section=None):
     maps, urls = [], []
     if section is not None:
         if section not in sitemaps:
-            raise Http404("No sitemap available for section: %r" % section)
+            raise Http404(_(u"No sitemap available for section: %r") % section)
         maps.append(sitemaps[section])
     else:
         maps = sitemaps.values()
@@ -54,9 +55,9 @@ def sitemap(request, sitemaps, section=None):
             else:
                 urls.extend(site.get_urls(page=page, site=current_site))
         except EmptyPage:
-            raise Http404("Page %s empty" % page)
+            raise Http404(_(u"Page %s empty") % page)
         except PageNotAnInteger:
-            raise Http404("No page '%s'" % page)
+            raise Http404(_(u"No page '%s'") % page)
     xml = smart_str(loader.render_to_string('gis/sitemaps/geo_sitemap.xml', {'urlset': urls}))
     return HttpResponse(xml, content_type='application/xml')
 
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/views.py b/django/contrib/gis/views.py
index 0e1721093b9..fc51a0bf3aa 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/views.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 from django.http import Http404
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 
 def feed(request, url, feed_dict=None):
     """Provided for backwards compatibility."""
     if not feed_dict:
-        raise Http404("No feeds are registered.")
+        raise Http404(_(u"No feeds are registered."))
 
     try:
         slug, param = url.split('/', 1)
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ def feed(request, url, feed_dict=None):
     try:
         f = feed_dict[slug]
     except KeyError:
-        raise Http404("Slug %r isn't registered." % slug)
+        raise Http404(_(u"Slug %r isn't registered.") % slug)
 
     instance = f()
     instance.feed_url = getattr(f, 'feed_url', None) or request.path
diff --git a/django/views/static.py b/django/views/static.py
index 387b7da06b5..f2279802fc7 100644
--- a/django/views/static.py
+++ b/django/views/static.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import urllib
 from django.http import Http404, HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponseNotModified
 from django.template import loader, Template, Context, TemplateDoesNotExist
 from django.utils.http import http_date, parse_http_date
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _, ugettext_noop
 
 def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
     """
@@ -48,9 +49,9 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
     if os.path.isdir(fullpath):
         if show_indexes:
             return directory_index(newpath, fullpath)
-        raise Http404("Directory indexes are not allowed here.")
+        raise Http404(_(u"Directory indexes are not allowed here."))
     if not os.path.exists(fullpath):
-        raise Http404('"%s" does not exist' % fullpath)
+        raise Http404(_(u'"%s" does not exist') % fullpath)
     # Respect the If-Modified-Since header.
     statobj = os.stat(fullpath)
     mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)
@@ -69,16 +70,17 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
 
 
 DEFAULT_DIRECTORY_INDEX_TEMPLATE = """
+{% load i18n %}
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en">
   <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
     <meta name="robots" content="NONE,NOARCHIVE" />
-    <title>Index of {{ directory }}</title>
+    <title>{% blocktrans %}Index of {{ directory }}{% endblocktrans %}</title>
   </head>
   <body>
-    <h1>Index of {{ directory }}</h1>
+    <h1>{% blocktrans %}Index of {{ directory }}{% endblocktrans %}</h1>
     <ul>
       {% ifnotequal directory "/" %}
       <li><a href="../">../</a></li>
@@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ DEFAULT_DIRECTORY_INDEX_TEMPLATE = """
   </body>
 </html>
 """
+template_translatable = ugettext_noop(u"Index of %(directory)s")
 
 def directory_index(path, fullpath):
     try: