playframework/play — pull request #550 by ubenzer (2012-12-13 11:39:37+00:00)
Title: "find" of Messages class now checks for default language keys on wilcard queries

If a messages file doesn't have a particular key, normally play uses default messages files' keys. But if you use wilcard entries (for example in i18n tag for views) wilcard entries only searched in current languages messages file. So if a key missing for that language, defaults values are never populated.

This pull request searches default language file for keys and populates that keys from default language file if current language file misses that keys.