diff -bru hovertip-orig/hovertip.js hovertip/hovertip.js
--- hovertip-orig/hovertip.js	2008-05-09 17:52:18.000000000 -0400
+++ hovertip/hovertip.js	2010-08-26 08:22:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 
 // adds a close link to clicktips
 clicktipPrepareWithCloseLink = function(o, config) {
-  return o.append("<a class='clicktip_close'><span>close</span></a>")
+  return o.append("<a class='clicktip_close'><span>" + hovertipCloseString + "</span></a>")
   .find('a.clicktip_close').click(function(e) {
       o.hide();
       return false;
diff -bru hovertip-orig/hovertip.module hovertip/hovertip.module
--- hovertip-orig/hovertip.module	2008-05-15 18:23:14.000000000 -0400
+++ hovertip/hovertip.module	2010-08-26 08:22:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 function hovertip_init() {
   drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'hovertip') .'/hovertip.css');
   drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', 'hovertip') .'/hovertip.js');
-  if ($js = _hovertip_get_javascript())
+  $js = "var hovertipCloseString = " . drupal_to_js(t('close')) . ";\n" . _hovertip_get_javascript();
     drupal_add_js($js, 'inline');
 }