diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c
index 8b2da4641..7378ba287 100644
--- a/gettext.c
+++ b/gettext.c
@@ -18,6 +18,31 @@
 #	endif
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Guess the user's preferred languages from the value in LANGUAGE environment
+ * variable and LC_MESSAGES locale category if NO_GETTEXT is not defined.
+ *
+ * The result can be a colon-separated list like "ko:ja:en".
+ */
+const char *get_preferred_languages(void)
+{
+	const char *retval;
+
+	retval = getenv("LANGUAGE");
+	if (retval && *retval)
+		return retval;
+
+#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+	retval = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL);
+	if (retval && *retval &&
+		strcmp(retval, "C") &&
+		strcmp(retval, "POSIX"))
+		return retval;
+#endif
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 #ifdef GETTEXT_POISON
 int use_gettext_poison(void)
 {
diff --git a/gettext.h b/gettext.h
index dc1722dd4..33696a40b 100644
--- a/gettext.h
+++ b/gettext.h
@@ -89,4 +89,6 @@ const char *Q_(const char *msgid, const char *plu, unsigned long n)
 #define N_(msgid) (msgid)
 #endif
 
+const char *get_preferred_languages(void);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 0153fb0b6..9c825afef 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "credential.h"
 #include "version.h"
 #include "pkt-line.h"
+#include "gettext.h"
 
 int active_requests;
 int http_is_verbose;
@@ -1002,32 +1003,6 @@ static void extract_content_type(struct strbuf *raw, struct strbuf *type,
 		strbuf_addstr(charset, "ISO-8859-1");
 }
 
-
-/*
- * Guess the user's preferred languages from the value in LANGUAGE environment
- * variable and LC_MESSAGES locale category if NO_GETTEXT is not defined.
- *
- * The result can be a colon-separated list like "ko:ja:en".
- */
-static const char *get_preferred_languages(void)
-{
-	const char *retval;
-
-	retval = getenv("LANGUAGE");
-	if (retval && *retval)
-		return retval;
-
-#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
-	retval = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL);
-	if (retval && *retval &&
-		strcmp(retval, "C") &&
-		strcmp(retval, "POSIX"))
-		return retval;
-#endif
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 static void write_accept_language(struct strbuf *buf)
 {
 	/*