diff --git a/scripts/README b/scripts/README
index ff8b366..0191d8f 100644
--- a/scripts/README
+++ b/scripts/README
@@ -25,3 +25,17 @@
 
 python compare_xml.py -o target.xml
 
+
+
+language_helper.py
+
+This script reads the English and supplied other language files and
+compares the 2 and reorders and rewrites the other language to a new
+XML file such that all the strings are placed in the same order as
+the English file. It will place commented out string lines for items
+that are not present in the new file and will not include any strings
+in the new file that are no longer present in the English source.
+There is also a version tag that may be compared if present between
+the English and other language in case a translation string changes.
+
+python language_helper.py -o ../gui/theme/common/languages/es.xml
diff --git a/scripts/language_helper.py b/scripts/language_helper.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e3df71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/language_helper.py
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+from xml.dom import minidom
+import sys
+import getopt
+
+# language helper
+#
+# by Ethan Yonker (Dees_Troy)
+#
+# This script reads the English and supplied other language files and
+# compares the 2 and reorders and rewrites the other language to a new
+# XML file such that all the strings are placed in the same order as
+# the English file. It will place commented out string lines for items
+# that are not present in the new file and will not include any strings
+# in the new file that are no longer present in the English source.
+# There is also a version tag that may be compared if present between
+# the English and other language in case a translation string changes.
+
+
+
+# this helps us avoid ascii unicode errors when writing the final XML
+def toprettyxml(xdoc, encoding):
+    #"""Return a pretty-printed XML document in a given encoding."""
+    unistr = xdoc.toprettyxml().replace(u'<?xml version="1.0" ?>',
+                          u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="%s"?>' % encoding)
+    return unistr.encode(encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+
+HELP = """
+  language_helper.py   -o file.xml    other language to compre to English
+                     [ -f file.xml ]  output file (defaults to new.xml)
+                       -h             help info
+"""
+
+enfile = "../gui/theme/common/languages/en.xml"
+otherfile = ""
+outfile = "new.xml"
+
+try:
+	opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "hfo:koz", ["device="])
+except getopt.GetoptEror:
+	print HELP
+	sys.stdout.flush()
+	sys.exit(2)
+
+for opt, arg in opts:
+	if opt == "-h":
+		print HELP
+		sys.stdout.flush()
+		sys.exit()
+	elif opt == "-o":
+		otherfile = arg
+	elif opt == "-f":
+		outfile = arg
+
+if otherfile == "":
+	print HELP
+	exit()
+
+print "Comparing %s and %s" % (enfile, otherfile)
+print ""
+
+# Open English
+endoc = minidom.parse(enfile)
+
+# Open other language
+otherdoc = minidom.parse(otherfile)
+otherstrings = otherdoc.getElementsByTagName('string')
+
+# create minidom-document
+doc = minidom.Document()
+
+# language tag
+language = doc.createElement('language')
+doc.appendChild(language)
+
+# display tag (name of the language that shows in the GUI)
+otherlang = ""
+otherdisplay = otherdoc.getElementsByTagName('display')
+for disnode in otherdisplay:
+	if disnode.nodeType == disnode.ELEMENT_NODE:
+		language.appendChild(disnode)
+		otherlang = disnode.firstChild.data
+		print otherlang
+
+# resources
+resources = doc.createElement('resources')
+language.appendChild(resources)
+
+enres = endoc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
+for resnode in enres:
+	resc = resnode.childNodes
+	for child in resc:
+		if child.nodeType == child.ELEMENT_NODE:
+			if child.tagName != "string":
+				otherres = otherdoc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
+				found = False
+				for othernode in otherres:
+					otherresc = othernode.childNodes
+					for otherchild in otherresc:
+						if otherchild.nodeType == otherchild.ELEMENT_NODE:
+							if otherchild.tagName == child.tagName:
+								if otherchild.attributes['name'].value == child.attributes['name'].value:
+									found = True
+									resources.appendChild(otherchild)
+									break
+					if found == True:
+						break
+				if found == False:
+					print "Failed to find %s in %s, using what we got from English" % (child.toxml(), otherlang)
+					resources.appendChild(child)
+			else:
+				found = False
+				for others in otherstrings:
+					if child.attributes['name'].value == others.attributes['name'].value:
+						found = True
+						enver = "1"
+						if child.hasAttribute('version'):
+							enver = child.attributes['version'].value
+						otherver = "1"
+						if others.hasAttribute('version'):
+							otherver = others.attributes['version'].value
+						if enver != otherver:
+							ver_err = "English has version " + enver + " but " + otherlang + " has version " + otherver + " for '" + child.attributes['name'].value + "'"
+							print ver_err
+							version_comment = doc.createComment(ver_err)
+							resources.appendChild(version_comment)
+							resources.appendChild(others)
+						else:
+							resources.appendChild(others)
+						break
+				if found == False:
+					print "'%s' present in English and not in %s" % (child.attributes['name'].value, otherlang)
+					notfound_err = "NOT FOUND " + child.toxml()
+					notfound_comment = doc.createComment(notfound_err)
+					resources.appendChild(notfound_comment)
+		elif child.nodeType == child.COMMENT_NODE:
+			resources.appendChild(child)
+
+# Done, output the xml to a file
+file_handle = open(outfile,"wb")
+itspretty = toprettyxml(doc, "utf-8")
+file_handle.write(itspretty)
+file_handle.close()