diff --git a/po-properties/ChangeLog b/po-properties/ChangeLog
index 6a97061cba..9491c114e3 100644
--- a/po-properties/ChangeLog
+++ b/po-properties/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-10-30  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
+
+	* ast.po: Remove fuzzy marker from header and use charset=UTF-8 to
+	avoid crashing with some versions of msgfmt.
+
 2008-10-23  Gil Forcada  <gforcada@gnome.org>
 
 	* ast.po: Added empty Asturian translation so we don't break build the
diff --git a/po-properties/ast.po b/po-properties/ast.po
index bb702d3393..8ca440fbfc 100644
--- a/po-properties/ast.po
+++ b/po-properties/ast.po
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
 # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
 #
-#, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
 
 #: ../gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.c:89