diff --git a/po/ChangeLog b/po/ChangeLog
index 9f126f52e6..23ab5b1502 100644
--- a/po/ChangeLog
+++ b/po/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-03-30  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
+
+	* Makefile.in.in: fix escaping of " for qt UI files
+
 2003-03-10  Michael Schmitt  <Michael.Schmitt@teststep.org>
 	
 	* pocheck.pl: new perl script that checks the consistency of a
diff --git a/po/Makefile.in.in b/po/Makefile.in.in
index 2802a8808c..3b69603746 100644
--- a/po/Makefile.in.in
+++ b/po/Makefile.in.in
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ $(srcdir)/qt_l10n.pot: $(top_srcdir)/src/frontends/qt2/ui/*.ui
 	             gsub(/&amp;/, "\\&", line); \
 	             gsub(/&lt;/, "<", line); \
 	             gsub(/&gt;/, ">", line); \
+		     gsub(/\"/, "\\\"", line); \
 		     if (length(line) > 0) \
                              printf("#: %s:%d\nmsgid \"%s\"\nmsgstr \"\"\n\n",\
 		     FILENAME, FNR, line); \