diff --git a/modules/TDEL10n.cmake b/modules/TDEL10n.cmake
index 58a4313..9702553 100644
--- a/modules/TDEL10n.cmake
+++ b/modules/TDEL10n.cmake
@@ -432,11 +432,13 @@ macro( tde_l10n_create_template )
 
     # update references for resources to original files and line numbers
     if( _rcs OR _attributes )
-      file( STRINGS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/extracted-rc.tde_l10n" _extractedRC )
-      list( LENGTH _extractedRC _extractedRC_len )
+      file( READ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/extracted-rc.tde_l10n" _extractedRC )
+      string( REGEX REPLACE "[^\n]" "" _extractedRC_len "${_extractedRC}" )
+      string( LENGTH "+${_extractedRC_len}" _extractedRC_len )
       set( _rcPos 0 )
       while( _rcPos LESS ${_extractedRC_len} )
-        list( GET _extractedRC ${_rcPos} _rcLine )
+        string( REGEX REPLACE "^([^\n]*)\n(.*)" "\\1" _rcLine "${_extractedRC}" )
+        string( REGEX REPLACE "^([^\n]*)\n(.*)" "\\2" _extractedRC "${_extractedRC}" )
         math( EXPR _rcPos "${_rcPos}+1" )
         if( "${_rcLine}" MATCHES "^//i18n: file .* line [0-9]*$" )
           string( REGEX REPLACE "^//i18n: file (.*) line ([0-9]*)$" "\\1:\\2" _rcOrig ${_rcLine} )