diff --git a/tools/update_translations_pot.py b/tools/update_translations_pot.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import datetime
+import glob
+import os
+import sys
+import pathlib
+import subprocess
+
+from packaging.version import Version
+
+
+# Version 0.22 is the first version to support c++-format
+_MIN_XGETTEXT_VERSION = Version("0.22")
+
+_HEADER = """
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: DevilutionX\\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: {timestamp}\\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: \\n"
+"Last-Translator: \\n"
+"Language-Team: \\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\\n"
+"X-Generator: xgettext {xgettext_version}\\n"
+"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\\n"
+"X-Poedit-KeywordsList: ;_;N_;ngettext:1,2;pgettext:1c,2;P_:1c,2\\n"
+"X-Poedit-Basepath: ..\\n"
+"X-Poedit-SearchPath-0: Source\\n"
+
+"""
+
+
+class Error(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, message):
+        self.message = message
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.message
+
+
+def get_xgettext() -> tuple[str, str]:
+    xgettext_bin = os.environ.get("XGETTEXT_BIN", "xgettext")
+    result: subprocess.CompletedProcess = subprocess.run(
+        [xgettext_bin, "--version"],
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=sys.stderr,
+        check=True,
+    )
+    version_str = result.stdout.split(b"\n")[0].split(b" ")[-1].decode()
+    version = Version(version_str.split("-")[0])
+    if version < _MIN_XGETTEXT_VERSION:
+        raise Error(
+            f"{xgettext_bin} version {version} is too low,"
+            + f" minimum required is {_MIN_XGETTEXT_VERSION}"
+        )
+    return xgettext_bin, version_str
+
+
+def run_xgettext():
+    xgettext_binary, xgettext_version = get_xgettext()
+    files = []
+    for ext in ["h", "c", "hpp", "cpp"]:
+        files.extend(glob.glob(f"Source/**/*.{ext}", recursive=True))
+    files.sort()
+
+    result: subprocess.CompletedProcess = subprocess.run(
+        [
+            xgettext_binary,
+            "--output=-",
+            "--keyword",
+            "--keyword=_",
+            "--flag=_:1:pass-c++-format",
+            "--keyword=N_",
+            "--flag=N_:1:pass-c++-format",
+            "--keyword=ngettext:1,2",
+            "--flag=ngettext:1:pass-c++-format",
+            "--flag=ngettext:2:pass-c++-format",
+            "--keyword=pgettext:1c,2",
+            "--flag=pgettext:2:pass-c++-format",
+            "--keyword=P_:1c,2",
+            "--flag=P_:2:pass-c++-format",
+            "--flag=runtime:1:c++-format",
+            "--flag=Log:1:c++-format",
+            "--flag=LogError:1:c++-format",
+            "--flag=LogWarn:1:c++-format",
+            "--flag=LogInfo:1:c++-format",
+            "--flag=LogDebug:1:c++-format",
+            "--flag=LogVerbose:1:c++-format",
+            "--language=C++",
+            "--from-code=UTF-8",
+            "--add-comments=TRANSLATORS: ",
+            # Omitting the header causes spurious warnings:
+            # "msgid contains non-ASCII characters".
+            #
+            # To avoid the warnings, we generate the header
+            # but skip writing it later.
+            # "--omit-header",
+            "--debug",
+            *files,
+        ],
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=sys.stderr,
+        check=True,
+    )
+
+    timestamp = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")
+    with open("Translations/devilutionx.pot", "wb") as f:
+        f.write(
+            _HEADER.format(
+                timestamp=timestamp,
+                xgettext_version=xgettext_version,
+            ).encode()
+        )
+        f.write(b"\n\n".join(result.stdout.split(b"\n\n")[1:]))
+
+
+def main():
+    os.chdir(pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent)
+    try:
+        run_xgettext()
+    except Error as e:
+        print("Error:", e, file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+        print("Error:", e.cmd[0], "failed", file=sys.stderr)
+        return e.returncode
+
+
+main()