diff -u b/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc b/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc
--- b/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc
+++ b/core/modules/locale/locale.bulk.inc
@@ -58,12 +58,11 @@
     '#description'       => t('A Gettext Portable Object file.'),
     '#upload_validators' => $validators,
   );
-  $file_description = drupal_render($file_description);
 
   $form['file'] = array(
     '#type' => 'file',
     '#title' => t('Translation file'),
-    '#description' => $file_description,
+    '#description' => drupal_render($file_description),
     '#size' => 50,
     '#upload_validators' => $validators,
     '#attributes' => array('class' => array('file-import-input')),