diff --git a/src/lang/extra/_checkMissingTranslations.sh b/utils/checkMissingTranslations.sh
similarity index 80%
rename from src/lang/extra/_checkMissingTranslations.sh
rename to utils/checkMissingTranslations.sh
index 847ab0a395..e3b23e622c 100755
--- a/src/lang/extra/_checkMissingTranslations.sh
+++ b/utils/checkMissingTranslations.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+git_top_level=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
-   echo "Please specify a language file to update"
+   echo "Please specify a language to update"
    exit 1
 fi
 
-language_file="$1"
+language_file="$git_top_level/src/lang/extra/$1.txt"
 
 # Check that the specified file exists
 if [ ! -f "$language_file" ]; then
@@ -38,4 +40,6 @@ while read -r line; do
       echo "$line" >>"$language_file"
       echo "Added missing line to $language_file: $line"
    fi
-done <"english.txt"
+done <"$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
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..092448a4a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/conv-lang.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+
+#!/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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