Making i18n work on all Unix webservers ?

With the following code to translate messages in french,
we need to put the mo files in a directory like

./local/xxx/LC_MESSAGE/messages.{mo,po}

	putenv("LANGUAGE=french");
	setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_BE');
	bindtextdomain("messages", "./local");
	textdomain("messages");
	echo '<br>' . _("Yes");

On one linux webserver, xxx must be 'fr' (and LANGUAGE set).
On another linux webserver, xxx must be 'french' (no var to set).

How can I guess which xxx to use, for my code to work on
any webserver ? Other solution than using 3 or more directories
like 'fr', 'french', 'fr_BE', and copying it?
In fact, I'd like to make it work on windows servers too...

And how can I guess which env var to set (or not) and in
which order (LC_ALL, LANG, LANGUAGE, ...) ? Is there a way
to do it for the code to work nearly everywhere ?
I'll use a class to hide that complexity.

Can someone help ? The PHP documentation is far from beeing
clear and precise enough in that particular field.

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Christophe Chisogne
Developper, Publicityweb sprl
http://www.publicityweb.com
Tel +32(0)61/27.14.80


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