1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/linguist/lupdate/main.cpp b/tools/linguist/lupdate/main.cpp
index 6b554e0bb9..bdaec4f59b 100644
--- a/tools/linguist/lupdate/main.cpp
+++ b/tools/linguist/lupdate/main.cpp
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ static void updateTsFiles(const Translator &fetchedTor, const QStringList &tsFil
                 tor.setCodecName(codecForTr);
             if (!targetLanguage.isEmpty())
                 tor.setLanguageCode(targetLanguage);
+            else
+                tor.setLanguageCode(Translator::guessLanguageCodeFromFileName(fileName));
             if (!sourceLanguage.isEmpty())
                 tor.setSourceLanguageCode(sourceLanguage);
         }