diff --git a/cmake/KF5I18NMacros.cmake b/cmake/KF5I18NMacros.cmake
--- a/cmake/KF5I18NMacros.cmake
+++ b/cmake/KF5I18NMacros.cmake
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@
 
     if (NOT TARGET pofiles)
         add_custom_target(pofiles)
+    endif()
+    if (NOT TARGET tsfiles)
         add_custom_target(tsfiles)
     endif()
     add_dependencies(pofiles pofiles-${pathmd5})
@@ -132,7 +134,49 @@
     install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${dirname} DESTINATION ${destname})
 endfunction()
 
-function(ki18n_install_ts_files _lang)
-    message(AUTHOR_WARNING "KI18N_INSTALL_TS_FILES is deprecated!")
-    ki18n_install(${_lang})
+#install the scripts for a given language in the target folder
+#usage: KI18N_INSTALL_TS_FILES("ja" ${scripts_dir})
+function(KI18N_INSTALL_TS_FILES lang scripts_dir)
+   file(GLOB_RECURSE ts_files RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${scripts_dir}/*)
+   set(pmapc_files)
+   foreach(ts_file ${ts_files})
+      string(REGEX MATCH "\\.svn/" in_svn ${ts_file})
+      if(NOT in_svn)
+         # If ts_file is "path/to/foo/bar.js"
+         # We want subpath to contain "foo"
+         get_filename_component(subpath ${ts_file} DIRECTORY)
+         get_filename_component(subpath ${subpath} NAME)
+         install(FILES ${ts_file}
+                 DESTINATION ${LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR}/${lang}/LC_SCRIPTS/${subpath})
+         # If current file is a pmap, also install the compiled version.
+         get_filename_component(ts_ext ${ts_file} EXT)
+         if(ts_ext STREQUAL ".pmap")
+            set(pmap_file ${ts_file})
+            get_filename_component(pmap_basename ${ts_file} NAME)
+            set(pmapc_basename "${pmap_basename}c")
+            set(pmapc_file "${lang}-${subpath}-${pmapc_basename}")
+            add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${pmapc_file}
+               COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}
+               ARGS
+               -B
+               ${_ki18n_pmap_compile_script}
+               ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${pmap_file}
+               ${pmapc_file}
+               DEPENDS ${pmap_file})
+            install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${pmapc_file}
+                    DESTINATION ${LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR}/${lang}/LC_SCRIPTS/${subpath}
+                    RENAME ${pmapc_basename})
+            list(APPEND pmapc_files ${pmapc_file})
+         endif()
+      endif()
+   endforeach()
+   if(pmapc_files)
+      if(NOT TARGET pmapfiles)
+         add_custom_target(pmapfiles)
+      endif()
+      set(pmapc_target "pmapfiles-${lang}")
+      string(REPLACE "@" "_" pmapc_target ${pmapc_target})
+      add_custom_target(${pmapc_target} ALL DEPENDS ${pmapc_files})
+      add_dependencies(pmapfiles ${pmapc_target})
+   endif()
 endfunction()