diff --git a/functions.php b/functions.php
index 9e29279..1b520f9 100644
--- a/functions.php
+++ b/functions.php
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ function openmamba_download_func( $atts ) {
    $mediaprefix = '/var/ftp/pub/openmamba/media';
    $mediafallbackprefix = '/var/ftp/pub/openmamba/media/milestone2';
    $outputlang = get_bloginfo("language");
+   $outputlang = substr($outputlang,0,2);
    if ("$outputlang" != "it") {
       $outputlang = "en";
       $mlword = "multilanguage";
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ function openmamba_distroquery_func() {
    }
 
    $outputlang = get_bloginfo("language");
-   if ($outputlang == "it")
+   if (substr($outputlang, 0, 2) == "it")
       $outputlang = "it_IT.UTF-8";
    else
       $outputlang = "en_US.UTF-8";
diff --git a/languages/it.mo b/languages/it_IT.mo
similarity index 100%
rename from languages/it.mo
rename to languages/it_IT.mo
diff --git a/languages/it.po b/languages/it_IT.po
similarity index 100%
rename from languages/it.po
rename to languages/it_IT.po