diff --git a/src/po/cleanup.vim b/src/po/cleanup.vim
index 6df5edd..1af188a 100644
--- a/src/po/cleanup.vim
+++ b/src/po/cleanup.vim
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 silent g/^msgid"/s//msgid "/
 silent g/^msgstr ""\(\n"\)\@!/?^msgid?,.s/^/#\~ /
 
+" Comments only useful for the translator
+silent g/^#\. /d
+
 " clean up empty lines
 silent g/^\n\n\n/.d
 silent! %s/\n\+\%$//