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24739	Document translation fallback behavior change in 1.8	Nicola	nobody	"I updated from 1.7 to 1.8 

in my templates and python code I have string in my native language (italian),

so my po files look likes this:

1) locale en

msgid ""original string in italian""
msgstr ""english translated string""

2) locale it

msgid ""original string in italian""
msgstr """"

now in settings I have:

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'

my browser is in italian so request.LANGUAGE_CODE is ""it""

in django <1.8 the fallback translation is taken from the it po file, in django 1.8+ en translation is used since my default LANGUAGE_CODE is ""en"", if I set LANGUAGE_CODE to ""it""  the fallback string from it po file is used "	Bug	closed	Internationalization	1.8	Release blocker	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0