diff --git a/data/locale/Makefile.am b/data/locale/Makefile.am
index a88f19957..0199402f3 100644
--- a/data/locale/Makefile.am
+++ b/data/locale/Makefile.am
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ ordercheck: $(top_srcdir)/data/locale/$(master.locale)
 
 locals.h: ordercheck
 	cut -d' ' -f1 $(top_srcdir)/data/locale/$(master.locale) | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr \. \_  | tr \- \_ | tr -d \? | \
-		$(top_srcdir)/data/locale/create.locals.h
+		$(top_srcdir)/data/locale/helpers/create-locals.h
 
 locals_intern.h: ordercheck
 	cut -d' ' -f1 $(top_srcdir)/data/locale/$(master.locale) | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq | \
-		$(top_srcdir)/data/locale/create.locals_intern.h
+		$(top_srcdir)/data/locale/helpers/create-locals_intern.h
 
 check: locals.h locals_intern.h
 	diff locals.h $(top_srcdir)/src/system
diff --git a/data/locale/_readme.txt b/data/locale/_readme.txt
index ca063f2fb..364b955ea 100644
--- a/data/locale/_readme.txt
+++ b/data/locale/_readme.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ english.locale is considered the master file.
 
 Verfication of .locale files:
 -----------------------------
-Use the check.locale.files shell script for detecting
+Use ./helpers/check-locale for detecting in master file
 - violations of the sorting order,
 - missing translations and
 - legacy strings.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Or use for item 3-6 'make locals'
 
 8.)
 To the extent possible, update other locale file. For this, the
-Perl-script create-locals-update.pl may be useful. 
+Perl-script ./helpers/create-locals-work may be useful.
 
 9.)
 If committing the changes to Git, commit both the involved
diff --git a/data/locale/check.locale.files b/data/locale/helpers/check-locale
similarity index 100%
rename from data/locale/check.locale.files
rename to data/locale/helpers/check-locale
diff --git a/data/locale/create-locals-update.pl b/data/locale/helpers/create-locals-work
similarity index 95%
rename from data/locale/create-locals-update.pl
rename to data/locale/helpers/create-locals-work
index 91c0705f9..9dfe879b0 100755
--- a/data/locale/create-locals-update.pl
+++ b/data/locale/helpers/create-locals-work
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 $masterfilename = "english.locale";
 
-$#ARGV == 0 || die("Usage: create-locals-update.pl file.locale.");
+$#ARGV == 0 || die("Usage: create-locals-work file.locale.");
 
 $no_errors = 0;
 $last_was_ok = 1;
diff --git a/data/locale/create.locals.h b/data/locale/helpers/create-locals.h
similarity index 93%
rename from data/locale/create.locals.h
rename to data/locale/helpers/create-locals.h
index 11fe2fd20..efad5d9d8 100755
--- a/data/locale/create.locals.h
+++ b/data/locale/helpers/create-locals.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# usage: cut -d' ' -f1 english.locale | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr \. \_  | tr \- \_ | tr -d \? | ./create.locals.h
+# usage: cut -d' ' -f1 english.locale | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr \. \_  | tr \- \_ | tr -d \? | ./helpers/create-locals.h
 cat > locals.h <<EOF
 #ifndef __locals__
 #define __locals__
diff --git a/data/locale/create.locals_intern.h b/data/locale/helpers/create-locals_intern.h
similarity index 97%
rename from data/locale/create.locals_intern.h
rename to data/locale/helpers/create-locals_intern.h
index f9f506fa3..1bcae02d0 100755
--- a/data/locale/create.locals_intern.h
+++ b/data/locale/helpers/create-locals_intern.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# usage: cut -d' ' -f1 english.locale | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq | ./create.locals_intern.h
+# usage: cut -d' ' -f1 english.locale | LC_ALL=C sort | uniq | ./helpers/create-locals_intern.h
 cat > locals_intern.h <<EOF
 #ifndef __locals_intern__
 #define __locals_intern__