diff --git a/po/update_strings.sh b/po/update_strings.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+SCRIPTDIR=`dirname $0`
+xgettext  --from-code=UTF-8 -k_ -kN_  -j -o TeaTime.pot "$SCRIPTDIR"/../src/*.js "$SCRIPTDIR"/../src/schemas/*.xml