diff --git a/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_language.php b/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_language.php
index b2d732d4a8..43d6b32dbe 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_language.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_language.php
@@ -265,20 +265,21 @@ class acp_language
 				$lang_iso = $request->variable('iso', '');
 				$lang_iso = basename($lang_iso);
 
-				if (!$lang_iso || !file_exists("{$phpbb_root_path}language/$lang_iso/iso.txt"))
+				if (!$lang_iso || !file_exists("{$phpbb_root_path}language/$lang_iso/composer.json"))
 				{
 					trigger_error($user->lang['LANGUAGE_PACK_NOT_EXIST'] . adm_back_link($this->u_action), E_USER_WARNING);
 				}
 
-				$file = file("{$phpbb_root_path}language/$lang_iso/iso.txt");
-
-				$lang_pack = array(
-					'iso'		=> $lang_iso,
-					'name'		=> trim(htmlspecialchars($file[0], ENT_COMPAT)),
-					'local_name'=> trim(htmlspecialchars($file[1], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')),
-					'author'	=> trim(htmlspecialchars($file[2], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'))
-				);
-				unset($file);
+				/** @var \phpbb\language\language_file_helper $language_helper */
+				$language_helper = $phpbb_container->get('language.helper.language_file');
+				try
+				{
+					$lang_pack = $language_helper->get_language_data_from_composer_file("{$phpbb_root_path}language/$lang_iso/composer.json");
+				}
+				catch (\DomainException $e)
+				{
+					trigger_error($user->lang['LANGUAGE_PACK_NOT_EXIST'] . adm_back_link($this->u_action), E_USER_WARNING);
+				}
 
 				$sql = 'SELECT lang_iso
 					FROM ' . LANG_TABLE . "
diff --git a/phpBB/language/en/composer.json b/phpBB/language/en/composer.json
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..f72db34269
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpBB/language/en/composer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+	"name": "en",
+	"description": "phpBB Forum Software default style",
+	"type": "phpbb-language",
+	"version": "3.2.0-a1-dev",
+	"homepage": "https://www.phpbb.com",
+	"license": "GPL-2.0",
+	"authors": [
+		{
+			"name": "phpBB Limited",
+			"email": "operations@phpbb.com",
+			"homepage": "https://www.phpbb.com/go/authors"
+		}
+	],
+	"support": {
+		"issues": "https://tracker.phpbb.com",
+		"forum": "https://www.phpbb.com/community/",
+		"wiki": "https://wiki.phpbb.com",
+		"irc": "irc://irc.freenode.org/phpbb"
+	},
+	"extra": {
+		"language-iso": "en",
+		"english-name": "British English",
+		"local-name": "British English",
+		"phpbb-version": "3.2.0-a1-dev"
+	}
+}
diff --git a/phpBB/language/en/iso.txt b/phpBB/language/en/iso.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e45cc56d0..0000000000
--- a/phpBB/language/en/iso.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-British English
-British English
-phpBB Limited
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/phpBB/phpbb/language/language_file_helper.php b/phpBB/phpbb/language/language_file_helper.php
index 85de034fb8..8d6bb8cc0b 100644
--- a/phpBB/phpbb/language/language_file_helper.php
+++ b/phpBB/phpbb/language/language_file_helper.php
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class language_file_helper
 		// Find available language packages
 		$finder = new Finder();
 		$finder->files()
-			->name('iso.txt')
+			->name('composer.json')
 			->depth('== 1')
 			->followLinks()
 			->in($this->phpbb_root_path . 'language');
@@ -53,20 +53,58 @@ class language_file_helper
 		$available_languages = array();
 		foreach ($finder as $file)
 		{
-			$path = $file->getRelativePath();
-			$info = explode("\n", $file->getContents());
+			$json = $file->getContents();
+			$data = json_decode($json, true);
 
-			$available_languages[] = array(
-				// Get the name of the directory containing iso.txt
-				'iso' => $path,
-
-				// Recover data from file
-				'name' => trim($info[0]),
-				'local_name' => trim($info[1]),
-				'author' => trim($info[2])
-			);
+			$available_languages[] = $this->get_language_data_from_json($data);
 		}
 
 		return $available_languages;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Collect some data from the composer.json file
+	 *
+	 * @param string $path
+	 * @return array
+	 */
+	public function get_language_data_from_composer_file($path)
+	{
+		$json_data = file_get_contents($path);
+		return $this->get_language_data_from_json(json_decode($json_data, true));
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Collect some data from the composer.json data
+	 *
+	 * @param array $data
+	 * @return array
+	 */
+	protected function get_language_data_from_json(array $data)
+	{
+		if (!isset($data['extra']['language-iso']) || !isset($data['extra']['english-name']) || !isset($data['extra']['local-name']))
+		{
+			throw new \DomainException('INVALID_LANGUAGE_PACK');
+		}
+
+		$authors = array();
+		if (isset($data['authors']))
+		{
+			foreach ($data['authors'] as $author)
+			{
+				if (isset($author['name']) && $author['name'] !== '')
+				{
+					$authors[] = $author['name'];
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		return array(
+			'iso' => $data['extra']['language-iso'],
+
+			'name' => $data['extra']['english-name'],
+			'local_name' => $data['extra']['local-name'],
+			'author' => implode(', ', $authors),
+		);
+	}
 }