diff -Naur gpe-conf-0.2.8.orig/intltool-merge.in gpe-conf-0.2.8/intltool-merge.in
--- gpe-conf-0.2.8.orig/intltool-merge.in	2009-03-09 17:17:15.000000000 -0400
+++ gpe-conf-0.2.8/intltool-merge.in	2009-03-09 17:17:22.000000000 -0400
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 
 my %po_files_by_lang = ();
 my %translations = ();
-my $iconv = $ENV{"ICONV"} || $ENV{"INTLTOOL_ICONV"} || "@INTLTOOL_ICONV@";
+my $iconv = $ENV{"ICONV"} || $ENV{"INTLTOOL_ICONV"} || '@INTLTOOL_ICONV@';
 my $devnull = ($^O eq 'MSWin32' ? 'NUL:' : '/dev/null');
 
 # Use this instead of \w for XML files to handle more possible characters.