diff --git a/gramps/gen/utils/grampslocale.py b/gramps/gen/utils/grampslocale.py
index 162e614e9..725409b1d 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/utils/grampslocale.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/utils/grampslocale.py
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ _LOCALE_NAMES = {
     'sq': ('Albanian_Albania', '1250', _("Albanian")),
     'sr': ('Serbian(Cyrillic)_Serbia and Montenegro', '1251', _("Serbian")),
     'sv': ('Swedish_Sweden', '1252', _("Swedish")),
+    'ta': (None, None, _("Tamil")), # Windows has no codepage for Tamil
     'tr': ('Turkish_Turkey', '1254', _("Turkish")),
     'uk': ('Ukrainian_Ukraine', '1251', _("Ukrainian")),
     'vi': ('Vietnamese_Vietnam', '1258', _("Vietnamese")),
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ _LOCALE_NAMES = {
     }
 
 # locales with less than 70% currently translated
-INCOMPLETE_TRANSLATIONS = ('ar', 'bg', 'he', 'ja', 'sq', 'tr')
+INCOMPLETE_TRANSLATIONS = ('ar', 'bg', 'he', 'ja', 'sq', 'ta', 'tr')
 
 def _check_mswin_locale(locale):
     msloc = None
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 436f6559e..78b81f03e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ import argparse
 ALL_LINGUAS = ('ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en_GB',
                'eo', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'is', 'it',
                'ja', 'lt', 'nb', 'nl', 'nn', 'pl', 'pt_BR', 'pt_PT',
-               'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi',
+               'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'ta', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi',
                'zh_CN', 'zh_HK', 'zh_TW')
 _FILES = ('data/tips.xml', 'data/holidays.xml')