I’ve actually been in the exact situation you’re in before, all you need to do is drop the __()s and the _e()s and replace them with their first parameter, you can pretty easily do this by regex if there are a lot, and it’s quick to do by hand if there aren’t…I’m not sure what the performance penalty on them is, especially if they’re empty, but I’m a bit of a performance hound, so it wasn’t something I was going to risk.
