diff --git a/www/manager/pve-lang-de.js b/www/manager/pve-lang-de.js
deleted file mode 100644
index a81dad91..00000000
--- a/www/manager/pve-lang-de.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Ext.onReady(function() {
-    // fixme: how do we implement i18n?
-    //alert("LOADED LANG DE");
-});
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/xgettext.pl b/xgettext.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index 9f55a6f1..00000000
--- a/xgettext.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-use strict;
-use Locale::Maketext::Extract;
-use Cwd;
-use Getopt::Long;
-use Time::Local;
-
-sub help {
-    die "unknown option";
-}
-
-my %opts;
-Getopt::Long::Configure("no_ignore_case");
-Getopt::Long::GetOptions( \%opts,
-			  'f|files-from:s@',
-			  'D|directory:s',
-			  'd|default-domain:s',
-			  'c|add-comments:s',
-			  'v|version',
-			  'msgid-bugs-address:s',
-			  'copyright-holder:s',
-			  'h|help',
-			  ) or help();
-help() if $opts{h};
-
-if ($opts{v}) {
-    print "xgettext pve\n";
-    exit 0;
-}
-
-my $sources = [];
-
-my $cwd = getcwd();
-
-my $dir = $opts{D} || $cwd;
-
-foreach my $file (@{$opts{f}||[]}) {
-    open FILE, $file or die "Cannot open $file: $!";
-    while (<FILE>) {
-	chomp;
-	s/\s+$//;
-	s/^\s+//;
-	next if !$_;
-	next if m/^#/;
-	push @$sources, $_;
-    }
-}
-
-my $filename = "messages.pot";
-
-$filename = "$opts{d}.pot" if $opts{d};
-
-my $Ext = Locale::Maketext::Extract->new();
-
-my $ctime = scalar localtime;
-
-my $header = << '.';
-# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
-# Copyright (C) 2011 Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH
-# This file is distributed under the same license as the pve-manager package.
-# Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>, 2011.
-#
-msgid ""
-msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: pve-manager 2\n"
-.
-
-$header .= "\"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: $opts{'msgid-bugs-address'}\\n\"\n" if  $opts{'msgid-bugs-address'};
-$header .= "\"POT-Creation-Date: $ctime\\n\"\n";
-
-$header .= << '.';
-"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
-"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <support@proxmox.com>\n"
-"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
-"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
-.
-
-$Ext->set_header ($header);
-
-#$Ext->read_po($po, $opts{u}) if -r $po;
-
-chdir $dir;
-
-foreach my $s (@$sources) {
-    $Ext->extract_file($s);
-
-}
-
-#$Ext->compile($opts{u});
-$Ext->compile() or die "compile error";
-
-#$Ext->write_po($filename, $opts{g});
-
-chdir $cwd;
-
-$Ext->write_po($filename);
-