diff --git a/minui/Android.mk b/minui/Android.mk
index 281f649..4dfc65f 100644
--- a/minui/Android.mk
+++ b/minui/Android.mk
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@
     libdrm \
     libsync_recovery
 
-LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := libpng
+LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := \
+    libpng \
+    libbase
+
 LOCAL_CFLAGS := -Werror
 LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/include
 LOCAL_EXPORT_C_INCLUDE_DIRS := $(LOCAL_PATH)/include
@@ -61,7 +64,10 @@
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 LOCAL_MODULE := libminui
 LOCAL_WHOLE_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libminui
-LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := libpng
+LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := \
+    libpng \
+    libbase
+
 LOCAL_CFLAGS := -Werror
 LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/include
 LOCAL_EXPORT_C_INCLUDE_DIRS := $(LOCAL_PATH)/include
diff --git a/minui/include/minui/minui.h b/minui/include/minui/minui.h
index a1749df..78dd4cb 100644
--- a/minui/include/minui/minui.h
+++ b/minui/include/minui/minui.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 #include <functional>
+#include <string>
 
 //
 // Graphics.
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@
 // Resources
 //
 
-bool matches_locale(const char* prefix, const char* locale);
+bool matches_locale(const std::string& prefix, const std::string& locale);
 
 // res_create_*_surface() functions return 0 if no error, else
 // negative.
diff --git a/minui/resources.cpp b/minui/resources.cpp
index c0f9c5c..86c731b 100644
--- a/minui/resources.cpp
+++ b/minui/resources.cpp
@@ -25,8 +25,11 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+#include <regex>
+#include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
+#include <android-base/strings.h>
 #include <png.h>
 
 #include "minui/minui.h"
@@ -371,16 +374,26 @@
 
 // This function tests if a locale string stored in PNG (prefix) matches
 // the locale string provided by the system (locale).
-bool matches_locale(const char* prefix, const char* locale) {
-    if (locale == nullptr) {
-        return false;
-    }
+bool matches_locale(const std::string& prefix, const std::string& locale) {
+  // According to the BCP 47 format, A locale string may consists of:
+  // language-{extlang}-{script}-{region}-{variant}
+  // The locale headers in PNG mostly consist of language-{region} except for sr-Latn, and some
+  // android's system locale can have the format language-{script}-{region}.
 
-    // Return true if the whole string of prefix matches the top part of
-    // locale. For instance, prefix == "en" matches locale == "en_US";
-    // and prefix == "zh_CN" matches locale == "zh_CN_#Hans".
+  // Return true if the whole string of prefix matches the top part of locale. Otherwise try to
+  // match the locale string without the {script} section.
+  // For instance, prefix == "en" matches locale == "en-US", prefix == "sr-Latn" matches locale
+  // == "sr-Latn-BA", and prefix == "zh-CN" matches locale == "zh-Hans-CN".
+  if (android::base::StartsWith(locale, prefix.c_str())) {
+    return true;
+  }
 
-    return (strncmp(prefix, locale, strlen(prefix)) == 0);
+  size_t separator = prefix.find('-');
+  if (separator == std::string::npos) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  std::regex loc_regex(prefix.substr(0, separator) + "-[A-Za-z]*" + prefix.substr(separator));
+  return std::regex_match(locale, loc_regex);
 }
 
 int res_create_localized_alpha_surface(const char* name,