diff --git a/renameEachPluginLocales.php b/renameEachPluginLocales.php
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+<?php
+
+$locales = [
+    'be@cyrillic' => 'be',
+    'bs' => 'bs_Latn',
+    'fr_FR' => 'fr',
+    'nb' => 'nb_NO',
+    'pt_PT' => 'pt',
+    'sr@cyrillic' => 'sr_Cyrl',
+    'sr@latin' => 'sr_Latn',
+    'uz@cyrillic' => 'uz',
+    'uz@latin' => 'uz_Latn',
+    'zh_CN' => 'zh_Hans',
+];
+
+$allFiles = [];
+$result = getFiles(dirname(__FILE__), $locales);
+$allFiles = array_merge($allFiles, $result);
+exec("git commit -m 'locales renamed'");
+
+function getFiles($target, $locales)
+{
+    clearstatcache();
+    //echo 'target: ' .$target . "\n";
+    $result = [];
+    foreach ($locales as $oldLocale => $newLocale) {
+        $useGit = false;
+        foreach (glob($target . "/locale/{$oldLocale}/*.po") as $oldFilename) {
+            $result[] = $oldFilename;
+            $newFilename = str_replace("/locale/{$oldLocale}/", "/locale/{$newLocale}/", $oldFilename);
+            if (!is_dir(dirname($newFilename))) {
+                mkdir(dirname($newFilename), 0777, true);
+            }
+
+            echo 'old file name: ' . $oldFilename . "\n";
+            echo 'new file name: ' . $newFilename . "\n";
+            echo 'old file exists: ' . file_exists($oldFilename) . "\n";
+            echo 'new folder exists: ' . is_dir(dirname($newFilename)) . "\n";
+
+            rename($oldFilename, $newFilename);
+            $useGit = true;
+        }
+        if ($useGit) {
+            $oldDir = "{$target}/locale/{$oldLocale}/";
+            $newDir = "{$target}/locale/{$newLocale}/";
+            exec("git add {$newDir}*");
+            exec("git rm {$oldDir}*");
+        }
+    }
+    return $result;
+}