Bug #66265 [Asn->Fbk]: gettext is not working anymore

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66265&edit=1 ID: 66265 Updated by: ab@php.net Reported by: roeycohen at gmail dot com Summary: gettext is not working anymore -Status: Assigned +Status: Feedback Type: Bug Package: Gettext related Operating System: windows PHP Version: 5.5.7 Assigned To: ab Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Hi, after further debugging it turned out, that the issue might be laying somewhere else. With CLI, could you please try the following - set LANG=en_US - run php snippet.php After that your first snippet works as well. Could you confirm that? To install additional locales, on win8 i go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Language Maybe that's edition dependent, but one could try. Thanks Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-12 11:57:40] roeycohen at gmail dot com My current locale is indeed he_IL: hebrew(israel). i'm not sure how to install another locale... but my machine is able to display english characters :)) when i switch between php versions, i do it on the same machine: i stop iis, rename the php folders and start the server again. I also ran the script using CLI and got the same results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-12 11:31:22] ab@php.net ups, set back the php version ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-12 11:30:11] ab@php.net Hi, thanks for posting the experience. However on my machine your exact snippet worked. There's another point with gettext - the locale passed to gettext has to be present on the system. Same on Linux, the locale has to be present (that /etc/locale.gen stuff), on Windows it has to be installed along with the base locale. After your last discovery, is the base system locale on your machine he_IL? Please check that en_US support is installed as well. Is the machine where 5.4 works the same where 5.5 fails? Also, to exclude IIS, could you please try the same on CLI? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-12 11:15:51] roeycohen at gmail dot com hmm, apparently, trying other locales, other than he_IL doesn't fix the problem... i've tried: es_ES, en, 'dummy', fr_FR same result as en_US. only he_IL fixes the problem, may it has something to do with my region format being "israel"? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-12 11:10:04] roeycohen at gmail dot com ok, i found something, if i change the folder en_US to he_IL and also use these lines instead of the original ones: putenv("LC_ALL=he_IL"); setlocale(LC_ALL, 'he_IL'); and restart the server then everything is working fine... i didn't had this problem in version 5.4.8 :( ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66265 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66265&edit=1