diff --git a/scripts/compile-translation.php b/scripts/compile-translation.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * Compile a translation file from .po to .mo
+ */
+chdir(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));
+
+if ($argc < 2) {
+    die("pass language name to update, i.e 'de_DE'\n");
+}
+$lang = $argv[1];
+
+$langdir = 'data/locales/' . $lang;
+if (!is_dir($langdir)) {
+    die('There is no language directory: ' . $langdir . "\n");
+}
+
+
+passthru(
+    'msgfmt --statistics'
+    . ' ' . $langdir . '/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po'
+    . ' -o ' . $langdir . '/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo'
+);
+
+?>
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