From 9ece6408f3957e7e7520a833d92f816722ed07e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frans de Jonge <fransdejonge@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:57:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] gettext: die already you stupid language not found
 error (#3341)

---
 frontend/gettext.lua | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frontend/gettext.lua b/frontend/gettext.lua
index 5800ce321..845ae98a2 100644
--- a/frontend/gettext.lua
+++ b/frontend/gettext.lua
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ end
 -- we only implement a sane subset for now
 
 function GetText_mt.__index.changeLang(new_lang)
-    if new_lang == "en_US:en" then return end
+    -- can be various things such as `en_US` or `en_US:en`
+    if new_lang:match("^en_US") == "en_US" then return end
 
     GetText.translation = {}
     GetText.current_lang = "C"