diff --git a/setup/translations.py b/setup/translations.py
index 7f81abf8f5..190b32bfc9 100644
--- a/setup/translations.py
+++ b/setup/translations.py
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ class GetTranslations(Translations):
                 #'-t', 'emails',
                 #'-t', 'doublequoting',
                 #'-t', 'filepaths',
-                #'-t', 'numbers',
+                '-t', 'numbers',
                 '-t', 'options',
                 #'-t', 'urls',
                 '-t', 'printf')
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/catalog/catalog_epub_mobi.ui b/src/calibre/gui2/catalog/catalog_epub_mobi.ui
index f443ba4f96..6e057a6481 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/catalog/catalog_epub_mobi.ui
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/catalog/catalog_epub_mobi.ui
@@ -107,14 +107,10 @@
       </size>
      </property>
      <property name="toolTip">
-      <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
-&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
-p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'Lucida Grande'; font-size:13pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;Default pattern &lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-family:'Courier New,courier';&quot;&gt;\[.+\]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;excludes tags of the form [&lt;span style=&quot; font-family:'Courier New,courier';&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/span&gt;], &lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;e.g., [Project Gutenberg]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+      <string>&lt;p&gt;Default pattern 
+\[.+\]
+excludes tags of the form [tag], 
+e.g., [Project Gutenberg]&lt;/p&gt;</string>
      </property>
      <property name="title">
       <string>Excluded genres</string>
@@ -252,12 +248,8 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
            </size>
           </property>
           <property name="toolTip">
-           <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
-&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
-p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'Lucida Grande'; font-size:13pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-size:12pt;&quot;&gt;Comma-separated list of tags to exclude.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-size:12pt;&quot;&gt;Default:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-family:'Courier New,courier'; font-size:12pt;&quot;&gt; ~,Catalog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+           <string>&lt;p&gt;Comma-separated list of tags to exclude.
+Default: ~,Catalog</string>
           </property>
          </widget>
         </item>