Re: Re: Using Translation from PEAR, other libraries

Hi Christophe Chisogne, you wrote:

> Ian Eure wrote:

>> - Hard to set up
> 
> With gettext php extension installed and correct path, it's not that
> hard (locale/fr_BE/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo). Only thing really annoying
> is that locale names arent standardized : win uses long names like
> English, French etc while *nix simply uses std names like fr_BE,
> en_US, nl_NL etc

This is where I18Nv2::setLocale() comes in (already used in Translation2)

> Well, there is a second one. To set locale, you have to define env
> var (LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE,...) Not sure same settings work
> everywhere (Unix boxes at least). But with php safe_mode on, only
> some env vars can be set, which means editing php.ini is often
> required to fix this, like safe_mode_allowed_env_vars =
> "PHP_,LC,LANG,TZ"

Yeah, this is a real show-stopper :-(

> Perhaps a third, but I never got an answer to this one. I dont know
> if using gettext with php (as Apache module) is "thread safe". If 2
> scripts are setting locale, I just hope they wont mix.

Well, this only concerns threaded Webservers/Apache-MPMs (AFAIK), 
but I guess it's not thread safe.

Regards,
-- 
Michael - < mike(@)php.net >

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