diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b25c15b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*~
diff --git a/update-translation.sh b/update-translation.sh
index 1a2138b..5a73f73 100755
--- a/update-translation.sh
+++ b/update-translation.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-xgettext -o locale/le-chat-php.pot `find . -iname '*.php'`
+xgettext --from-code UTF-8 -o locale/le-chat-php.pot `find . -iname '*.php'`
 for translation in `find locale -iname '*.po'`; do msgmerge -U "$translation" locale/le-chat-php.pot; msgfmt -o ${translation:0:-2}mo "$translation"; done