diff --git a/lang/french.inc.php3 b/lang/french-iso-8859-1.inc.php3
similarity index 100%
rename from lang/french.inc.php3
rename to lang/french-iso-8859-1.inc.php3
diff --git a/lang/galician.inc.php3 b/lang/galician-iso-8859-1.inc.php3
similarity index 100%
rename from lang/galician.inc.php3
rename to lang/galician-iso-8859-1.inc.php3
diff --git a/lang/sync_lang.sh b/lang/sync_lang.sh
index 3034e9929..ed405b913 100755
--- a/lang/sync_lang.sh
+++ b/lang/sync_lang.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dutch-iso-8859-1
 english-iso-8859-1
 estonian-iso-8859-1
 finnish-iso-8859-1
-french
+french-iso-8859-1
 galician
 german
 greek
diff --git a/libraries/select_lang.lib.php3 b/libraries/select_lang.lib.php3
index 678d2bc15..6331a70a4 100644
--- a/libraries/select_lang.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/select_lang.lib.php3
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ $available_languages = array(
     'es'           => array('es([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|spanish', 'spanish', 'es'),
     'et-iso-8859-1'=> array('et|estonian', 'estonian-iso-8859-1', 'et'),
     'fi-iso-8859-1'=> array('fi|finnish', 'finnish-iso-8859-1', 'fi'),
-    'fr'           => array('fr([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|french', 'french', 'fr'),
+    'fr-iso-8859-1'=> array('fr([-_][[:alpha:]]{2})?|french', 'french-iso-8859-1', 'fr'),
     'gl'           => array('gl|galician', 'galician', 'gl'),
     'he'           => array('he|hebrew', 'hebrew', 'he'),
     'hr-win1250'   => array('hr|croatian', 'croatian-windows-1250', 'hr'),