playframework/Play20 — pull request #380 by lexspoon (2012-07-08 22:44:52+00:00)
Title: [#573] Fall back to less specific locale for missing keys

Implements #573 (https://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401/tickets/573).

If this is accepted, then it would be good to update the documentation. The following sentence might be added to "Externalizing Messages" for both the Scala and Java APIs:

"If there is no message for the requested key and language, the Messages API will fall back on looking in the same language but with no region; if it's not there, either, it will look in the "default" messages."