diff --git a/tests/view_tests/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/djangojs.mo b/tests/view_tests/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/djangojs.mo
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diff --git a/tests/view_tests/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/djangojs.po b/tests/view_tests/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/djangojs.po
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..36c821109a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/view_tests/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/djangojs.po
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-09-15 19:15+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2010-05-12 12:41-0300\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+msgid "this color is to be translated"
+msgstr "this colour is to be translated"
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_i18n.py b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_i18n.py
index 0e87856228..ae39f34421 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_i18n.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_i18n.py
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@ class JsI18NTests(SimpleTestCase):
             self.assertContains(response, 'il faut le traduire')
             self.assertNotContains(response, "Untranslated string")
 
+    def test_i18n_english_variant(self):
+        with override('en-gb'):
+            response = self.client.get('/jsi18n/')
+            self.assertIn(
+                '"this color is to be translated": "this colour is to be translated"',
+                response.context['catalog_str']
+            )
+
     def test_i18n_language_non_english_default(self):
         """
         Check if the Javascript i18n view returns an empty language catalog