From a8cc62631e2589a0d4271494ff7ee1145200b400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Purfview <69023953+Purfview@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 21:59:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Raise an error for languages unsupported by a model

Raise an error for languages unsupported by a model.

Close: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/issues/1228
---
 faster_whisper/tokenizer.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py b/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
index d75bbd7f..96d53bf1 100644
--- a/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
+++ b/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ def __init__(
                 )
 
             self.task = self.tokenizer.token_to_id("<|%s|>" % task)
+            
             self.language = self.tokenizer.token_to_id("<|%s|>" % language)
+            if self.language is None:
+                 raise ValueError("Language '%s' is not supported by this model" % language)
+            
             self.language_code = language
         else:
             self.task = None

From c54ff883ce3436d5dc7a93f642e6d898853f2d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Purfview <69023953+Purfview@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 22:06:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] style fix

---
 faster_whisper/tokenizer.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py b/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
index 96d53bf1..aedb8ac3 100644
--- a/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
+++ b/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ def __init__(
             
             self.language = self.tokenizer.token_to_id("<|%s|>" % language)
             if self.language is None:
-                 raise ValueError("Language '%s' is not supported by this model" % language)
+                 raise ValueError(
+                     "Language '%s' is not supported by this model" % language
+                 )
             
             self.language_code = language
         else:

From e64d056766bd2abb3d7c42d103e7c186df276d86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Purfview <69023953+Purfview@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 22:11:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Style fix2

---
 faster_whisper/tokenizer.py | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py b/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
index aedb8ac3..6f1a9b1d 100644
--- a/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
+++ b/faster_whisper/tokenizer.py
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ def __init__(
                 )
 
             self.task = self.tokenizer.token_to_id("<|%s|>" % task)
-            
+
             self.language = self.tokenizer.token_to_id("<|%s|>" % language)
             if self.language is None:
-                 raise ValueError(
-                     "Language '%s' is not supported by this model" % language
-                 )
-            
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Language '%s' is not supported by this model" % language
+                )
+
             self.language_code = language
         else:
             self.task = None