Re: [PHP] gettext() troubles

Aaron Gould wrote:
> Denis Gerasimov wrote:
> 
>> <?php
>> putenv("LANG=ru_RU");
>> setlocale (LC_ALL,"ru");
>> $domain = 'messages';
>> echo bindtextdomain ($domain, 'D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng');
>> echo textdomain ($domain);
>> echo bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8');
>> echo gettext("string");
>> ?>
> 

anyone who has worked with locales on different machines/platforms
will probably run into the problem that locales are different and/or
differently named on alot of systems...

for this reason (I believe) set_locale() allows you to pass
an array of locale names as the second arg - the first one found will be used...

e.g. (I use dutch locales alot):

setlocale( LC_ALL,
	   array('nl_NL@euro',
		 'nl_NL',
		 'nld_nld',
		 'Dutch',
		 'Dutch_Netherlands.1252',
  		 'nl_NL.ISO8859-1',
		 'nl') );

maybe that helps a bit.

> 
> Here's what I use to set my language (to French in this case). It works 
> 100% of the time for me:
> 
>   // Set locale to preferred language
>   setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');
>   bindtextdomain('messages', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/locale');
>   textdomain('messages');
> 
> I don't do the "putenv" line that you have, so I'm not sure if it's 
> necessary...

it sometimes is I believe - depends on your setup (e.g. if your using CGI version)
- don't hold me to that I could be completely wrong.

>