--- pathauto.inc	2010-05-27 03:46:53.000000000 +0200
+++ pathauto.inc	2010-06-10 14:42:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -117,9 +117,18 @@
     static $translations = array();
 
     if (!$i18n_loaded) {
-      $path = drupal_get_path('module', 'pathauto');
-      if (is_file($path .'/i18n-ascii.txt')) {
-        $translations = parse_ini_file($path .'/i18n-ascii.txt');
+      $paths = array(
+          0 => conf_path(),
+          1 => 'sites/all',
+          2 => drupal_get_path('module', 'pathauto'),
+        );
+      $file = 'i18n-ascii.txt';
+      
+      foreach ($paths as $path) {
+        if (is_file($path .'/' . $file)) {
+          $translations = parse_ini_file($path .'/' . $file);
+          break;
+        }
       }
       $i18n_loaded = true;
     }



--- pathauto.admin.inc	2010-02-20 19:27:45.000000000 +0100
+++ pathauto.admin.inc	2010-06-10 18:26:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -114,9 +114,10 @@
   );

   $disable_transliteration = TRUE;
-  $path = drupal_get_path('module', 'pathauto');
   $transliteration_help = t('When a pattern includes certain characters (such as those with accents) should Pathauto attempt to transliterate them into the ASCII-96 alphabet? Transliteration is determined by the i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory. <strong>This option is disabled on your site because you do not have an i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory.</strong>');
-  if (is_file($path .'/i18n-ascii.txt')) {
+  $file = 'i18n-ascii.txt';
+    
+  if (is_file(conf_path() . '/' . $file) || is_file('sites/all/'. $file) || is_file(drupal_get_path('module', 'pathauto') .'/'. $file)) {
     $disable_transliteration = FALSE;
     $transliteration_help = t('When a pattern includes certain characters (such as those with accents) should Pathauto attempt to transliterate them into the ASCII-96 alphabet? Transliteration is determined by the i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory.');
   }


--- INSTALL.txt	2008-06-21 20:20:38.000000000 +0200
+++ INSTALL.txt	2010-06-10 18:46:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 You can then freely edit the i18n-ascii.txt without worrying that your changes 
 will be over-written by upgrades of Pathauto.

+In addition to the module directory, Pathauto looks for the i18n-ascii.txt file in the following locations:
+
+/sites/<yoursite>/
+/sites/all/
+
 For details on how to transliterate any UTF8 character, please see the full 
 i18n-ascii-fill.txt file information at http://drupal.org/node/185664