Hi, You can find attached the new version of the Text.pm module for po4a, with support for the fortunes format. You can use it by replacing your /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Text.pm Or just put the file in <one directory>/Locale/Po4a/Text.pm and run po4a by preceding the command with PERLLIB=<one directory>/ You will have to add "-o fortunes" to the po4a commands to specify that you want to use the fortunes format. The support is still limited, but should be sufficient for the Debian hints fortunes. I would like to add support comments and for references, like in: Packages should build-depend on what they should build-depend. -- Santiago Vila on debian-devel I will wait at least for po4a to enter testing (in 1 or 2 days), and I will release a new version. It would be useful if you could test it to check if it looks OK. Note: if you add a newline before the URL of hint #9 in the German hints-de, you will be able to reuse the German translation using: PERLLIB=<one directory>/ po4a-gettextize -f text -o fortunes \ -m hints -l hints-de -p hints.de.po -L UTF-8 Best Regards, -- Nekral