Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/07/90 11:27

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.

>

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