diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/testdata.jar b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/testdata.jar
index d8fdae2ae7..2e1da457fc 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/testdata.jar
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/testdata.jar
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b8ddb422cbe2d20bae943c64cf1d405038ff0dbd36baf3deca3932a87e4afd5d
-size 663198
+oid sha256:fa4cef998bc121b307a3c4047a50567c89b1024c7e7bdc6a9e2901fc1498952a
+size 661421
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java
index 4a7a0c48e5..737e8b5723 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java
@@ -2073,13 +2073,23 @@ public class TransliteratorTest extends TestFmwk {
      * Test instantiation from a locale.
      */
     public void TestLocaleInstantiation() {
+        try{
+            Transliterator t = Transliterator.getInstance("te_IN-Latin");
+            //expect(t, "\u0430", "a");
+        }catch(IllegalArgumentException ex){
+            warnln("Could not load locale data for obtaining the script used in the locale te_IN. "+ex.getMessage());
+        }
         try{
             Transliterator t = Transliterator.getInstance("ru_RU-Latin");
             expect(t, "\u0430", "a");
-            t = Transliterator.getInstance("en-el");
+        }catch(IllegalArgumentException ex){
+            warnln("Could not load locale data for obtaining the script used in the locale ru_RU. "+ex.getMessage());
+        }
+        try{
+            Transliterator t = Transliterator.getInstance("en-el");
             expect(t, "a", "\u03B1");
         }catch(IllegalArgumentException ex){
-            warnln("Could not load locale data for obtaining the script used in the locale");
+            warnln("Could not load locale data for obtaining the script used in the locale el. "+ ex.getMessage());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/icudata.jar b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/icudata.jar
index a233e74cd9..030ca354e4 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/icudata.jar
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/icudata.jar
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:0c1907c51760e190ef17d92220f730ddd3ce1abf2aaf2c704961f18d5249fbd6
-size 2002539
+oid sha256:e77e46a98e8c64cd3ace35c366568a5539ec03087b9bf5adb03d178e316cb89c
+size 2002570
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/TransliteratorRegistry.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/TransliteratorRegistry.java
index 4c718a6807..ac8417cc00 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/TransliteratorRegistry.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/TransliteratorRegistry.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class TransliteratorRegistry {
                 // If 'top' is not a script name, try a locale lookup
                 if (script == UScript.INVALID_CODE) {
                     Locale toploc = LocaleUtility.getLocaleFromName(top);
-                    res  = (ICUResourceBundle) ICUResourceBundle.getBundleInstance(ICUResourceBundle.ICU_TRANSLIT_BASE_NAME,toploc.toString(), true);
+                    res  = (ICUResourceBundle)UResourceBundle.getBundleInstance(ICUResourceBundle.ICU_TRANSLIT_BASE_NAME,toploc);
                     // Make sure we got the bundle we wanted; otherwise, don't use it
                     if (res!=null && LocaleUtility.isFallbackOf(res.getULocale().toString(), top)) {
                         isSpecLocale = true;