Fixed #19811 - Added language code fallback in get_language_info.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/utils/translation/__init__.py b/django/utils/translation/__init__.py
index 6fd52b6023..4645f142ce 100644
--- a/django/utils/translation/__init__.py
+++ b/django/utils/translation/__init__.py
@@ -187,4 +187,10 @@ def get_language_info(lang_code):
     try:
         return LANG_INFO[lang_code]
     except KeyError:
+        if '-' in lang_code:
+            splited_lang_code = lang_code.split('-')[0]
+            try:
+                return LANG_INFO[splited_lang_code]
+            except KeyError:
+                raise KeyError("Unknown language code %r and %r." % (lang_code, splited_lang_code))
         raise KeyError("Unknown language code %r." % lang_code)
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/i18n/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/i18n/tests.py
index 3fcb60c3b7..9e79f35d74 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/i18n/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/i18n/tests.py
@@ -956,6 +956,21 @@ class TestLanguageInfo(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(li['name'], 'German')
         self.assertEqual(li['bidi'], False)
 
+    def test_unknown_language_code(self):
+        with self.assertRaisesRegexp(KeyError, "Unknown language code u\'xx\'."):
+            get_language_info('xx')
+
+    def test_unknown_only_country_code(self):
+        li = get_language_info('de-xx')
+        self.assertEqual(li['code'], 'de')
+        self.assertEqual(li['name_local'], 'Deutsch')
+        self.assertEqual(li['name'], 'German')
+        self.assertEqual(li['bidi'], False)
+
+    def test_unknown_language_code_and_country_code(self):
+        with self.assertRaisesRegexp(KeyError, "Unknown language code u\'xx-xx\' and u\'xx\'."):
+            get_language_info('xx-xx')
+
 
 class MultipleLocaleActivationTests(TestCase):
     """