diff --git a/src/Paragraph.cpp b/src/Paragraph.cpp
index e803ac5036..75dbff36f4 100644
--- a/src/Paragraph.cpp
+++ b/src/Paragraph.cpp
@@ -2890,6 +2890,7 @@ docstring Paragraph::simpleLyXHTMLOnePar(Buffer const & buf,
 		if (inset) {
 			if (!runparams.for_toc || inset->isInToc()) {
 				OutputParams np = runparams;
+				np.local_font = &font;
 				if (!inset->getLayout().htmlisblock())
 					np.html_in_par = true;
 				retval += inset->xhtml(xs, np);
diff --git a/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp b/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp
index 9bfb3d488c..9a2ddd8bd8 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp
+++ b/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "Cursor.h"
 #include "DispatchResult.h"
 #include "InsetLabel.h"
+#include "Language.h"
 #include "LaTeXFeatures.h"
 #include "LyX.h"
 #include "OutputParams.h"
@@ -206,7 +207,7 @@ int InsetRef::docbook(odocstream & os, OutputParams const & runparams) const
 }
 
 
-docstring InsetRef::xhtml(XHTMLStream & xs, OutputParams const &) const
+docstring InsetRef::xhtml(XHTMLStream & xs, OutputParams const & op) const
 {
 	docstring const & ref = getParam("reference");
 	InsetLabel const * il = buffer().insetLabel(ref);
@@ -223,9 +224,8 @@ docstring InsetRef::xhtml(XHTMLStream & xs, OutputParams const &) const
 			display_string = value;
 		else if (cmd == "pageref" || cmd == "vpageref")
 			// normally would be "on page #", but we have no pages.
-			// FIXME this is wrong, as it should be the current language,
-			// but it is better than _(), which is what we had before.
-			display_string = buffer().B_("elsewhere");
+			display_string = translateIfPossible(from_ascii("elsewhere"),
+			        op.local_font->language()->lang());
 		else if (cmd == "eqref")
 			display_string = '(' + value + ')';
 		else if (cmd == "formatted")