diff --git a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.ace.js b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.ace.js
index 77d0e30dd70..511a093489f 100644
--- a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.ace.js
+++ b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.ace.js
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
             openerp.jsonRpc('/web/dataset/call', 'call', {
                 model: 'ir.ui.view',
                 method: 'read',
-                args: [[this.selectedViewId()], ['arch']],
+                args: [[this.selectedViewId()], ['arch'], website.get_context()],
             }).then(function(result) {
                 if (result && result.length > 0) {
                     var xml = new website.ace.XmlDocument(result[0].arch)
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
                 openerp.jsonRpc('/web/dataset/call', 'call', {
                     model: 'ir.ui.view',
                     method: 'write',
-                    args: [[this.selectedViewId()], { 'arch':  xml.xml }],
+                    args: [[this.selectedViewId()], { 'arch':  xml.xml }, website.get_context()],
                 }).then(function(result) {
                     self.reloadPage();
                 }).fail(function (error) {
diff --git a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js
index 4d6ec2520fd..58d25143b5c 100644
--- a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js
+++ b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
             return openerp.jsonRpc('/web/dataset/call', 'call', {
                 model: 'ir.ui.view',
                 method: 'save',
-                args: [data.oeModel, data.oeId, data.oeField, html, xpath]
+                args: [data.oeModel, data.oeId, data.oeField, html, xpath, website.get_context()]
             });
         },
         cancel: function () {
@@ -549,7 +549,9 @@
                 model: 'website',
                 method: 'list_pages',
                 args: [],
-                kwargs: {}
+                kwargs: {
+                    context: website.get_context()
+                },
             });
         },
         fill_pages: function (results) {
@@ -653,6 +655,7 @@
                     fields: ['name'],
                     domain: [['res_model', '=', 'ir.ui.view']],
                     order: 'name',
+                    context: website.get_context(),
                 }
             });
         },
diff --git a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.js b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.js
index 00ee14aac00..395b1f54a09 100644
--- a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.js
+++ b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.js
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
         '/website/static/src/xml/website.xml'
     ];
 
+    website.get_context = function (dict) {
+        return _.extend({
+            lang: $('html').attr('lang').replace('-', '_')
+        }, dict);
+    };
+
     /* ----- TEMPLATE LOADING ---- */
     website.add_template = function(template) {
         templates.push(template);
diff --git a/addons/website/views/views.xml b/addons/website/views/views.xml
index bfe81c8b44f..3a1104e586c 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/views.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/views.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 
         <template id="layout">
                 &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
-                <html t-att-data-editable="'1' if editable else '0'" t-att-data-view-xmlid="str(__stack__[0])">
+                <html t-att-lang="lang.replace('_', '-')"
+                      t-att-data-editable="'1' if editable else '0'"
+                      t-att-data-view-xmlid="str(__stack__[0])">
                     <head>
                         <title><t t-esc="title or res_company.name"/></title>
                         <meta name="openerp.company" t-att-value="res_company.name" />