diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-locales.yml b/.github/workflows/validate-locales.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 54c6d862..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/validate-locales.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-name: Locale Validation
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - master
-
-jobs:
-  validate:
-    name: Locale Validation
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code base
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-
-      - name: Setup dependencies
-        run: sudo apt-get -y install gettext
-
-      - name: Validate locale files
-        run: cd ./locale/ && ../bin/validate
diff --git a/bin/compile b/bin/compile
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index 00000000..7ef19351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/compile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+declare -A CATALOGS=()
+
+COMPONENTS=$(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name "sources.d" -printf "%P ")
+for component_name in $COMPONENTS; do
+  echo "Checking $component_name for catalogs"
+  LOCALES=$(find $component_name -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf "%P ")
+  echo "Component locales found: $LOCALES"
+  for locale_name in $LOCALES; do
+    CATALOGS[$locale_name]+=" $component_name/$locale_name/LC_MESSAGES/icinga.po"
+  done
+done
+
+for locale_name in "${!CATALOGS[@]}"; do
+  echo "Compiling catalogs for $locale_name"
+  mkdir -p ../locale/$locale_name/LC_MESSAGES
+  echo "${CATALOGS[$locale_name]}" | xargs msgcat -o ../locale/$locale_name/LC_MESSAGES/icinga.po --lang $locale_name
+  msgfmt -o ../locale/$locale_name/LC_MESSAGES/icinga.mo -c ../locale/$locale_name/LC_MESSAGES/icinga.po
+done
diff --git a/bin/validate b/bin/validate
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index e22321f9..00000000
--- a/bin/validate
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-FAIL=0
-
-LOCALES=$(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -regextype grep -regex '\./[a-z]\{2\}_[A-Z]\{2\}' -printf "%P ")
-for locale_name in $LOCALES; do
-  echo "Checking locale $locale_name"
-
-  OUTPUT=$(LC_ALL=C msgfmt -cvf --statistics $locale_name/LC_MESSAGES/icinga.po 2>&1 >/dev/null)
-  ECODE=$?
-  if [ -f "messages.mo" ]; then
-    rm "messages.mo"
-  fi
-
-  echo "$OUTPUT"
-
-  if [ $ECODE -gt 0 ]; then
-    FAIL=1
-  fi
-
-  TRANSLATED=0
-  UNTRANSLATED=0
-  FUZZY=0
-
-  RE="[0-9]+"
-  LAST_LINE=$(echo "$OUTPUT" | tail -1)
-  for chars in $LAST_LINE; do
-    if [[ "$chars" =~ $RE ]] && [[ ${BASH_REMATCH[0]} ]]; then
-      LAST_CNT="${BASH_REMATCH[0]}"
-    else
-      case $chars in
-        "translated")
-          TRANSLATED=$LAST_CNT
-        ;;
-        "fuzzy")
-          FUZZY=$LAST_CNT
-        ;;
-        "untranslated")
-          UNTRANSLATED=$LAST_CNT
-        ;;
-      esac
-    fi
-  done
-
-  if [ $FUZZY -gt 0 ]; then
-    echo "$locale_name still contains $FUZZY fuzzy messages"
-    FAIL=1
-  fi
-
-  PROGRESS=$(python -c "print (int(round(($TRANSLATED.0 / ($TRANSLATED + $UNTRANSLATED + $FUZZY)) * 100)))")
-  echo "$locale_name is at $PROGRESS%"
-
-  echo
-done
-
-exit $FAIL