Posted by Darko on 10/26/07 14:54

Hi,

I have problems implementing i18n on my site hosted on a FreeBSD
server. While it was hosted on a Linux server, there were no problems,
but once I transferred it to FreeBSD, gettext() doesn't translate
anything. Here's my directory structure:

public_html
|-- index.php
`-- locale
|-- en_US.ISO8859-1
| `-- LC_MESSAGES
| |-- OOModelProvider.mo
| `-- OOModelProvider.po
`-- sr_YU.ISO8859-2
`-- LC_MESSAGES
|-- OOModelProvider.mo
`-- OOModelProvider.po

And here's the function that calls php locale-related functions:
/* domain is "OOModelProvider", language is "en_US.ISO8859-2"
*/
function setLocale( $language, $domain )
{
@bindtextdomain( $domain, "/home/darko/public_html/
locale/" );
@bind_textdomain_codeset( $domain, "utf-8" );

if ( ! @setlocale( LC_MESSAGES, $language ) )
throw new Exception( "setlocale" );
textdomain( $domain );
}

This worked perfectly on Linux, but it doesn't work with FreeBSD. I
read somewhere that libintl needs to be installed for LC_MESSAGES, but
1. it is installed 2. LC_ALL instead of LC_MESSAGES doesn't work
neither.

Another important note: LC_DATE works, i.e. sprintf and strftime
(which are locale-aware) work as expected, that is, they print the
strings in expected languages.

Also, after I do setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, $language), I call it with "0"
as the second argument and it returns the correct locale set.

Please, if you have any ideas, post them here.

Thanks.

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