I was trying to test bbyak's fixes but I get the following error on win32:

msgfmt po/it.po -o build/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/inkscape.mo ============================= Make error: <msgfmt> problem: po/it.po:11672: duplicate message definition po/it.po:2915: ...this is the location of the first definition po/it.po:11682: duplicate message definition po/it.po:3821: ...this is the location of the first definition po/it.po:11693: duplicate message definition po/it.po:3843: ...this is the location of the first definition msgfmt: found 3 fatal errors

Aaron Spike