diff --git a/PySide/QtCore/typesystem_core.xml b/PySide/QtCore/typesystem_core.xml
index 2f553d6..9fc073b 100644
--- a/PySide/QtCore/typesystem_core.xml
+++ b/PySide/QtCore/typesystem_core.xml
@@ -1438,6 +1438,18 @@
         </inject-code>
     </add-function>
 
+    <template name="translate_utf8">
+    if (QCoreApplication::instance()) {
+        Shiboken::AutoDecRef klass(PyObject_GetAttrString(%PYSELF, "__class__"));
+        Shiboken::AutoDecRef cname(PyObject_GetAttrString(klass, "__name__"));
+        $DEFINE_SECOND_VAR
+        QString result = QCoreApplication::instance()->translate(PyString_AS_STRING(cname.object()), $SECOND_VAR, %2, QCoreApplication::UnicodeUTF8, %3);
+        %PYARG_0 = %CONVERTTOPYTHON[QString](result);
+    } else {
+        Py_INCREF(%PYARG_1);
+        %PYARG_0 = %PYARG_1;
+    }
+    </template>
     <add-function signature="trUtf8(const char *, const char *, int)" return-type="QString">
         <modify-argument index="2">
           <replace-default-expression with="0"/>
@@ -1446,18 +1458,12 @@
           <replace-default-expression with="-1"/>
         </modify-argument>
         <inject-code class="target" position="beginning">
-            if (QCoreApplication::instance()) {
-                Shiboken::AutoDecRef klass(PyObject_GetAttrString(%PYSELF, "__class__"));
-                Shiboken::AutoDecRef cname(PyObject_GetAttrString(klass, "__name__"));
-                QString result = QCoreApplication::instance()->translate(PyString_AS_STRING(cname.object()), %1, %2, QCoreApplication::UnicodeUTF8, %3);
-                %PYARG_0 = %CONVERTTOPYTHON[QString](result);
-            } else {
-                Py_INCREF(%PYARG_1);
-                %PYARG_0 = %PYARG_1;
-            }
+            <insert-template name="translate_utf8">
+                <replace from="$DEFINE_SECOND_VAR" to="" />
+                <replace from="$SECOND_VAR" to="%1" />
+            </insert-template>
         </inject-code>
     </add-function>
-
     <add-function signature="trUtf8(PyUnicode, const char *, int)" return-type="QString">
         <modify-argument index="2">
           <replace-default-expression with="0"/>
@@ -1466,20 +1472,13 @@
           <replace-default-expression with="-1"/>
         </modify-argument>
         <inject-code class="target" position="beginning">
-            if (QCoreApplication::instance()) {
-                Shiboken::AutoDecRef klass(PyObject_GetAttrString(%PYSELF, "__class__"));
-                Shiboken::AutoDecRef cname(PyObject_GetAttrString(klass, "__name__"));
-                Shiboken::AutoDecRef str(PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(%1));
-                QString result = QCoreApplication::instance()->translate(PyString_AS_STRING(cname.object()), PyString_AS_STRING(str.object()), %2, QCoreApplication::UnicodeUTF8, %3);
-                %PYARG_0 = %CONVERTTOPYTHON[QString](result);
-            } else {
-                Py_INCREF(%PYARG_1);
-                %PYARG_0 = %PYARG_1;
-            }
+            <insert-template name="translate_utf8">
+                <replace from="$DEFINE_SECOND_VAR" to="Shiboken::AutoDecRef str(PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(%1));" />
+                <replace from="$SECOND_VAR" to="PyString_AS_STRING(str.object())" />
+            </insert-template>
         </inject-code>
     </add-function>
 
-
    <modify-function signature="receivers(const char*) const">
      <inject-code class="target" position="beginning">
        // Avoid return +1 because SignalManager connect to "destroyed()" signal to control object timelife