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diff --git a/po/update_pot.py b/po/update_pot.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# update the pot file according the POTFILES.in
+
+import os
+
+GETTEXT_XGETTEXT_EXECUTABLE="xgettext"
+SOURCE_DIR=".."
+DOMAIN="blender"
+
+cmd = "%s --files-from=%s/po/POTFILES.in --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --directory=%s --output=%s/po/%s.pot --from-code=utf-8" % (
+    GETTEXT_XGETTEXT_EXECUTABLE, SOURCE_DIR, SOURCE_DIR, SOURCE_DIR, DOMAIN)
+
+os.system( cmd )
+
+def stripeol(s):
+    if line.endswith("\n"):
+        s = s[:-1]
+
+    if line.endswith("\r"):
+        s = s[:-1]
+
+    return s
+
+pot_messages = {}
+reading_message = False
+message = ""
+with open("blender.pot", 'r') as handle:
+    while True:
+        line = handle.readline()
+
+        if not line:
+            break
+
+        line = stripeol(line)
+        if line.startswith("msgid"):
+            reading_message = True
+            message = line[7:-1]
+        elif line.startswith("msgstr"):
+            reading_message = False
+            pot_messages[message] = True
+        elif reading_message:
+            message += line[1:-1]
+
+# add messages collected automatically from RNA
+with open("blender.pot", "a") as pot_handle:
+    with open("messages.txt", 'r') as handle:
+        while True:
+            line = handle.readline()
+
+            if not line:
+                break
+
+            line = stripeol(line)
+            line = line.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+            line = line.replace("\"", "\\\"")
+
+            if not pot_messages.get(line):
+                pot_handle.write("\n#: Automatically collected from RNA\n")
+                pot_handle.write("msgid \"%s\"\n" % (line))
+                pot_handle.write("msgstr \"\"\n")