diff --git a/lib/Cake/Console/Command/Task/ExtractTask.php b/lib/Cake/Console/Command/Task/ExtractTask.php
index 1e171042aa5..db86198ac72 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Console/Command/Task/ExtractTask.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Console/Command/Task/ExtractTask.php
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ protected function _buildFiles() {
 					$occurrences[] = $file . ':' . implode(';', $lines);
 				}
 				$occurrences = implode("\n#: ", $occurrences);
-				$header = '#: ' . str_replace($paths, '', $occurrences) . "\n";
+				$header = '#: ' . str_replace(DS, '/', str_replace($paths, '', $occurrences)) . "\n";
 
 				if ($plural === false) {
 					$sentence = "msgid \"{$msgid}\"\n";