diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 19092cb8d..de2bd1d9f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2004-01-09  Alex Roitman  <shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu>
 	* src/plugins/rel_de.py: Update possible German locale list. 
 	* src/const.py.in: Mark LDS status strings as translatable.
+	* src/get_strings: Add coding line. Remove ^L chars.
 
 2004-01-08  Don Allingham  <dallingham@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* src/docgen/PSDrawDoc.py: Scaleable shadow
diff --git a/src/get_strings b/src/get_strings
index 010efe8dd..8d564ef71 100755
--- a/src/get_strings
+++ b/src/get_strings
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
+#  -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+#
 # Originally written by Barry Warsaw <barry@zope.com>
 #
 # Minimally patched to make it even more xgettext compatible 
@@ -8,6 +10,8 @@
 # project by Don Allingham (dallingham@users.sourceforge.net)
 #
 
+# $Id$
+
 """pygettext -- Python equivalent of xgettext(1)
 
 Many systems (Solaris, Linux, Gnu) provide extensive tools that ease the
@@ -230,7 +234,6 @@ msgstr ""
 
 ''')
 
-
 def usage(code, msg=''):
     sys.stderr.write(_(__doc__) % globals())
     if msg:
@@ -239,7 +242,6 @@ def usage(code, msg=''):
     sys.exit(code)
 
 
-
 escapes = []
 
 def make_escapes(pass_iso8859):