diff --git a/scripts/php2gettext.sh b/scripts/php2gettext.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+mkdir -p po
+
+for lang in lang/*.inc.php ; do
+    loc=`basename $lang | sed 's/-utf-8.inc.php//'`
+    # Unfold arrays, delete not translated strings
+    sed "
+    /to translate/D;
+    /\$allow_recoding/D;
+    s/\$byteUnits = array('\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)');/\$str_B = '\1';\n\$str_KiB = '\2';\n\$str_MiB = '\3';\n\$str_GiB = '\4';\n\$str_TiB = '\5';\n\$str_PiB = '\6';\n\$str_EiB = '\7';/;
+    s/\$day_of_week = array('\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)');/\$str_Sun = '\1';\n\$str_Mon = '\2';\n\$str_Tue = '\3';\n\$str_Wed = '\4';\n\$str_Thu = '\5';\n\$str_Fri = '\6';\n\$str_Sat = '\7';\n/;
+    s/\$month = array('\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)', '\(.*\)');/\$str_Jan = '\1';\n\$str_Feb = '\2';\n\$str_Mar = '\3';\n\$str_Apr = '\4';\n\$str_May = '\5';\n\$str_Jun = '\6';\n\$str_Jul = '\7';\n\$str_Aug = '\8';\n\$str_Sep = '\9';\n\$str_Oct = '\10';\n\$str_Nov = '\11';\n\$str_Dec = '\12';\n/;
+    " < $lang > po/$loc.php
+
+    case $loc in
+        afrikaans) langcode='af';;
+        arabic) langcode='ar';;
+        azerbaijani) langcode='az';;
+        bangla) langcode='bn';;
+        belarusian_cyrillic) langcode='be';;
+        belarusian_latin) langcode='be@latin';;
+        bulgarian) langcode='bg';;
+        bosnian) langcode='bs';;
+        catalan) langcode='ca';;
+        czech) langcode='cs';;
+        danish) langcode='da';;
+        german) langcode='de';;
+        greek) langcode='el';;
+        english) langcode='en';;
+        english-gb) langcode='en_GB';;
+        spanish) langcode='es';;
+        estonian) langcode='et';;
+        basque) langcode='eu';;
+        persian) langcode='fa';;
+        finnish) langcode='fi';;
+        french) langcode='fr';;
+        galician) langcode='gl';;
+        hebrew) langcode='he';;
+        hindi) langcode='hi';;
+        croatian) langcode='hr';;
+        hungarian) langcode='hu';;
+        indonesian) langcode='id';;
+        italian) langcode='it';;
+        japanese) langcode='jp';;
+        korean) langcode='ko';;
+        georgian) langcode='ka';;
+        lithuanian) langcode='lt';;
+        latvian) langcode='lv';;
+        macedonian_cyrillic) langcode='mk';;
+        mongolian) langcode='mn';;
+        malay) langcode='ms';;
+        dutch) langcode='nl';;
+        norwegian) langcode='no';;
+        polish) langcode='pl';;
+        brazilian_portuguese) langcode='pt_BR';;
+        portuguese) langcode='pt';;
+        romanian) langcode='ro';;
+        russian) langcode='ru';;
+        sinhala) langcode='si';;
+        slovak) langcode='sk';;
+        slovenian) langcode='sl';;
+        albanian) langcode='sq';;
+        serbian_latin) langcode='sr@latin';;
+        serbian_cyrillic) langcode='sr';;
+        swedish) langcode='sv';;
+        thai) langcode='th';;
+        turkish) langcode='tr';;
+        tatarish) langcode='tt';;
+        ukrainian) langcode='uk';;
+        chinese_traditional) langcode='zh_TW';;
+        chinese_simplified) langcode='zh_CN';;
+        uzbek_cyrillic) langcode='uz';;
+        uzbek_latin) langcode='uz@latin';;
+        *) echo "Wrong loc: $loc"; exit 1;;
+    esac
+
+    echo "$loc -> $langcode"
+    if [ $langcode = en ] ; then
+        php2po -i po/english.php -o po/phpmyadmin.pot -P
+        sed -i '
+            s/PACKAGE VERSION/phpMyAdmin 3.3/;
+            s/Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: .*\\n/Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sf.net\\n/;
+            ' po/phpmyadmin.pot
+    else
+        php2po -t po/english.php -i po/$loc.php  -o po/$langcode.po
+        sed -i "
+            s/PACKAGE VERSION/phpMyAdmin 3.3/;
+            /, fuzzy/D;
+            s/LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>/$loc <$langcode@li.org>/;
+            s/YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE/`date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M%z'`/;
+            s/FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>/Automatically generated/;
+            s/Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: .*\\\\n/Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sf.net\\\\n/;
+            " po/$langcode.po
+    fi
+done