diff --git a/utils/checkMissingTranslations.sh b/utils/checkMissingTranslations.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+git_top_level=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+   echo "Please specify a language to update"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+language_file="$git_top_level/src/lang/extra/$1.txt"
+
+# Check that the specified file exists
+if [ ! -f "$language_file" ]; then
+   echo "File not found: $language_file"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+in_override_section="true"
+# Read each line from the English file and check if it exists in the language file
+while read -r line; do
+   # Check if we have reached the end of the override section
+   if [[ $line == "##override off" ]]; then
+      in_override_section="false"
+      continue
+   fi
+
+   # Skip lines before the end of the override section
+   if [[ $in_override_section == "true" ]]; then
+      continue
+   fi
+   # Skip other lines that start with #
+   if [[ $line =~ ^#.* ]]; then
+      continue
+   fi
+   # Extract the string code from the English line
+   STRING_CODE=$(echo $line | cut -d':' -f1 | tr -d '[:space:]')
+   # Check if the string code exists in the language file
+   if ! grep -q "$STRING_CODE" "$language_file"; then
+      # If the line doesn't exist, add it to the end of the language file
+      echo "$line" >>"$language_file"
+      echo "Added missing line to $language_file: $line"
+   fi
+done <"$git_top_level/src/lang/extra/english.txt"
+cd $git_top_level/src/lang/
+perl $git_top_level/utils/conv-lang.pl
diff --git a/utils/conv-lang.pl b/utils/conv-lang.pl
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+
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use utf8;
+
+use File::Slurp;
+
+my @langs = qw(
+afrikaans.txt
+arabic_egypt.txt
+basque.txt
+belarusian.txt
+brazilian_portuguese.txt
+bulgarian.txt
+catalan.txt
+chuvash.txt
+croatian.txt
+czech.txt
+danish.txt
+dutch.txt
+english_AU.txt
+english_US.txt
+esperanto.txt
+estonian.txt
+faroese.txt
+finnish.txt
+french.txt
+frisian.txt
+gaelic.txt
+galician.txt
+german.txt
+greek.txt
+hebrew.txt
+hindi.txt
+hungarian.txt
+icelandic.txt
+ido.txt
+indonesian.txt
+irish.txt
+italian.txt
+japanese.txt
+korean.txt
+latin.txt
+latvian.txt
+lithuanian.txt
+luxembourgish.txt
+macedonian.txt
+malay.txt
+maltese.txt
+marathi.txt
+norwegian_bokmal.txt
+norwegian_nynorsk.txt
+persian.txt
+polish.txt
+portuguese.txt
+romanian.txt
+russian.txt
+serbian.txt
+simplified_chinese.txt
+slovak.txt
+slovenian.txt
+spanish.txt
+spanish_MX.txt
+swedish.txt
+tamil.txt
+thai.txt
+traditional_chinese.txt
+turkish.txt
+urdu.txt
+ukrainian.txt
+vietnamese.txt
+welsh.txt
+);
+
+
+my @lang_lines;
+
+my $start = 0;
+my @lines = read_file("extra/english.txt") or die("Can't read english.txt");
+for (@lines) {
+	$start = 1 if /##override off/;
+	next unless $start;
+
+	next if /^##/;
+
+	push @lang_lines, $_;
+}
+
+
+for my $lang (@langs) {
+	my @in_lines = read_file($lang);
+	push @in_lines, read_file("extra/$lang");
+
+	my %strs;
+	for (@in_lines) {
+		chomp;
+		next if /^#/;
+
+		if (/^(\w+)\s*:/) {
+			$strs{$1} = $_;
+		}
+	}
+
+	my @lines;
+	my $suppress_whitespace = 1;
+	for (@lang_lines) {
+		if (/^(\w+)\s*:/) {
+			if ($strs{$1}) {
+				push @lines, $strs{$1} . "\n";
+				$suppress_whitespace = 0;
+			}
+		} else {
+			next if ($_ eq "\n") && $suppress_whitespace;
+			push @lines, $_;
+			$suppress_whitespace = ($_ eq "\n");
+		}
+	}
+	pop @lines if ($lines[-1] eq "\n");
+	write_file("extra/$lang", @lines);
+}
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