diff --git a/Messages.sh b/Messages.sh
index 878703fb6..44108339f 100755
--- a/Messages.sh
+++ b/Messages.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ echo > po/LINGUAS
 for pofile in $(ls po/*.po | sort); do
   pofilebase=$(basename $pofile)
   pofilebase=${pofilebase/.po/}
-  msgmerge -U $pofile ${POT_FILE}
+  msgmerge -U --backup=none $pofile ${POT_FILE}
   echo $pofilebase >> po/LINGUAS
 done
diff --git a/po/CMakeLists.txt b/po/CMakeLists.txt
index 3eb768439..b379b64f4 100644
--- a/po/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/po/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-file(GLOB PO_FILES RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} *.po)
-gettext_create_translations(fcitx5.pot ALL ${PO_FILES})
+fcitx5_install_translation(fcitx5)
diff --git a/po/fcitx.pot b/po/fcitx.pot
deleted file mode 100644
index f26a63fe8..000000000
--- a/po/fcitx.pot
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
-# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
-# 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"
-"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2017-09-14 19:48-0700\n"
-"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
-"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
-"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
-"Language: \n"
-"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
-"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/charselectdata.cpp:214
-msgid "<Low Surrogate>"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/charselectdata.cpp:210
-msgid "<Non Private Use High Surrogate>"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/charselectdata.cpp:212
-msgid "<Private Use High Surrogate>"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/charselectdata.cpp:216
-msgid "<Private Use>"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/charselectdata.cpp:246
-msgid "<not assigned>"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/clipboard/clipboard.cpp:290
-msgid "Clipboard:"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/lib/fcitx/inputmethodmanager.cpp:186
-msgid "Default"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/notifications/notifications.cpp:231
-msgid "Do not show again"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/im/keyboard/keyboard.cpp:153 src/im/keyboard/keyboard.cpp:167
-msgid "Keyboard"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/clipboard/clipboard.cpp:292
-msgid "No clipboard history."
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/quickphrase/quickphrase.cpp:283
-msgid "Quick Phrase: "
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/im/keyboard/keyboard.cpp:264
-msgid "Spell hint"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/im/keyboard/keyboard.cpp:266
-msgid "Spell hint is disabled."
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/im/keyboard/keyboard.cpp:265
-msgid "Spell hint is enabled."
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/unicode.cpp:244
-msgid "Unicode: "
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/unicode.conf.in:3
-msgid "unicode"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/unicode.conf.in:4
-msgid "Fcitx Unicode Typing Support"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: src/modules/unicode/unicode.conf.in:5
-msgid "Add Unicode Typing Support"
-msgstr ""
diff --git a/src/lib/fcitx-utils/Fcitx5Macros.cmake b/src/lib/fcitx-utils/Fcitx5Macros.cmake
index 38123a64c..376f8d9f9 100644
--- a/src/lib/fcitx-utils/Fcitx5Macros.cmake
+++ b/src/lib/fcitx-utils/Fcitx5Macros.cmake
@@ -121,3 +121,26 @@ function(fcitx5_translate_desktop_file SRC DEST)
     DEPENDS "${SRC}")
   add_custom_target("${SRC_BASE}-fmt" ALL DEPENDS "${DEST}")
 endfunction()
+
+# Gettext function are not good for our use case.
+# GETTEXT_CREATE_TRANSLATIONS will call msgmerge which may update po file
+function(fcitx5_install_translation domain)
+  file(GLOB PO_FILES RELATIVE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}" *.po)
+  set(MO_FILES)
+  foreach(PO_FILE IN LISTS PO_FILES)
+    get_filename_component(PO_LANG ${PO_FILE} NAME_WE)
+    get_filename_component(ABS_PO_FILE ${PO_FILE} ABSOLUTE)
+    set(MO_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${domain}-${PO_LANG}.mo)
+
+    add_custom_command(
+        OUTPUT ${MO_FILE}
+        COMMAND ${GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE} -o ${MO_FILE} ${ABS_PO_FILE}
+        DEPENDS ${ABS_PO_FILE}
+    )
+
+    install(FILES ${MO_FILE} RENAME ${domain}.mo DESTINATION share/locale/${PO_LANG}/LC_MESSAGES)
+    set(MO_FILES ${MO_FILES} ${MO_FILE})
+  endforeach ()
+  add_custom_target("${domain}-translation" ALL DEPENDS ${MO_FILES})
+
+endfunction()