diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 68abd99a..9193800d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@ Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
  for suggesting to make the "Setup/OSD/Language" menu only show those languages
  that actually have a locale
  for suggesting to use setenv() instead of setlocale() to set the language for gettext()
+ for fixing handling locale directories with a large number of entries
 
 Antti Hartikainen <ami+vdr@ah.fi>
  for updating 'S13E' in 'sources.conf'
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 0677dbcc..4dee2ac5 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5379,3 +5379,8 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   vdr.mo. Text files for plugins are now named "vdr-name.mo", when "name" is the
   name of the plugin. The "newplugin" script has been changed accordingly, and
   plugin authors should change their Makefiles, too.
+
+2007-08-19: Version 1.5.9
+
+- Fixed handling locale directories with a large number of entries (thanks to
+  Anssi Hannula).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 52688530..a5efb9b7 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 1.297 2007/08/12 20:38:10 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.298 2007/08/19 16:02:50 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@
 
 // VDR's own version number:
 
-#define VDRVERSION  "1.5.8"
-#define VDRVERSNUM   10508  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define VDRVERSION  "1.5.9"
+#define VDRVERSNUM   10509  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // The plugin API's version number:
 
-#define APIVERSION  "1.5.8"
-#define APIVERSNUM   10508  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define APIVERSION  "1.5.9"
+#define APIVERSNUM   10509  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // When loading plugins, VDR searches them by their APIVERSION, which
 // may be smaller than VDRVERSION in case there have been no changes to
diff --git a/i18n.c b/i18n.c
index 15853a0f..c17dae70 100644
--- a/i18n.c
+++ b/i18n.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: i18n.c 1.312 2007/08/19 14:10:46 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: i18n.c 1.313 2007/08/19 16:03:03 kls Exp $
  *
  *
  */
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void I18nInitialize(void)
      for (int i = 0; i < Locales.Size(); i++) {
          cString FileName = cString::sprintf("%s/%s/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo", I18nLocaleDir, Locales[i]);
          if (access(FileName, F_OK) == 0) { // found a locale with VDR texts
-            if (i < I18N_MAX_LANGUAGES - 1) {
+            if (NumLocales < I18N_MAX_LANGUAGES - 1) {
                SetEnvLanguage(Locales[i]);
                NumLocales++;
                if (strstr(OldLocale, Locales[i]) == OldLocale)