Bug #66265 [Com]: gettext is not working anymore

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66265&edit=1 ID: 66265 Comment by: swbva at thecloudindex dot com Reported by: roeycohen at gmail dot com Summary: gettext is not working anymore Status: Assigned 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: Oh yes, @ab; of course it seems to me this isn't a case of having the right languages installed? On Win7, there is 'Region and Language', I guess all that are in the 'format' dropdown are supported (probably the same list as on the page the first link I've given in my previous post is pointing to). And of course, it IS workin in PHP 5.4... So (at least) it /looks/ like the OS / 'installed' 'languages' isn't the problem? Thanks Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-02-25 16:28:41] swbva at thecloudindex dot com Same kind of problems here... PHP 5.4 works fine, PHP 5.5 doesn't I'm on Win7-64. Correct locale identifiers (region & language) for Windows can be found in this table (last 2 columns): http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/goglobal/default.mspx (But, as some may know of course, other ways to indicate the locale on Windows are possible, see e.g.: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf%28v=vs.100%29.aspx) There DO seem to be some inconsistencies in PHP 5.5. For example; setting a locale named 'en' seems to be valid. PHP 5.4 returns (correctly?) false A little comparison ('locale': setlocale() return string): 5.4 en: false en_US: false en-US: false enu: English_United States.1252 5.5 en: en en_US: false en-US: en-US enu: English_United States.1252 Windows seem to add the codepage the the locale string. Since my language files are in utf-8 (not cp1252), I hope this doesn't cause troubles? It doesn't seem possible to add the encoding the the locale string in Windows. (Btw; of course, it IS working in PHP 5.4 already..) Another thing: what seems to work in PHP 5.4, is e.g. using putenv("LC_ALL=en"), with my english LC_MESSAGES in a folder named 'en'. Of course this isn't a valid (Windows) locale, but it IS what I want regarding Gettext in my case (1 file for the english language, disregarding region). Is this a valid practice? I believe the LC_ALL variable is temporary set/altered, and immediately restored to it's original/previous value after PHP is finished with Gettext? (So if it is working, it doesn't do any possible harm?) Btw; only LC_ALL env. variable seems to matter for gettext? I seems I can use anything for setlocale, and Gettext still will get the right file? (on Win/PHP 5.4 anyway..) Ps; I am wondering what exactly worked for roeycohen (and how?) I can reproduce his problem, but can't solve it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-01-21 15:32:54] alvaro at demogracia dot com Not sure if it's the same issue (I'll be glad to open a separate ticket otherwise) but in my case gettext is always loading the same catalogue. There's no say to change the language from within PHP. It happens with every PHP/5.5 version (VC11 TS x86) I've tried: 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.8... However, it works as expected with PHP/5.4 (VC9 TS x86). I have this test code [1] I run from the command-line in a Windows 7 (x64) with Spanish locale: <?php if(!defined('LC_MESSAGES')){ define('LC_MESSAGES', 5); } bindtextdomain('gettext', __DIR__ . '/locale'); bind_textdomain_codeset('gettext', 'UTF-8'); textdomain('gettext'); $languages = array( 'es', 'es_ES', 'en', 'en_GB', 'english', 'english-uk', 'uk', 'britain', 'england', 'eng', 'totally_invalid', ); foreach($languages as $locale){ putenv("LC_ALL=$locale"); echo $locale . ': ' . _('__translate_this__') . PHP_EOL; } In PHP/5.4 I get this: es: Loaded from Spanish catalogue es_ES: Loaded from Spanish catalogue en: Loaded from English catalogue en_GB: Loaded from English catalogue english: __translate_this__ english-uk: __translate_this__ uk: __translate_this__ britain: __translate_this__ england: __translate_this__ eng: __translate_this__ totally_invalid: __translate_this__ In PHP/5.5 I get this: es: Loaded from Spanish catalogue es_ES: Loaded from Spanish catalogue en: Loaded from Spanish catalogue en_GB: Loaded from Spanish catalogue english: Loaded from Spanish catalogue english-uk: Loaded from Spanish catalogue uk: Loaded from Spanish catalogue britain: Loaded from Spanish catalogue england: Loaded from Spanish catalogue eng: Loaded from Spanish catalogue totally_invalid: Loaded from Spanish catalogue Just to be sure, I've tested it with stripped down PHP installations: php-5.5.8-oficial-VC11 │ php.exe │ php.ini │ php5ts.dll │ └───ext php_gettext.dll ... where php.ini only contains this: [PHP] extension_dir = "ext" extension=php_gettext.dll ... and I manually clean up PATH before running my tests: PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem Setting a LANG variable manually from command prompt *does* change the catalogue (I get "Loaded from English catalogue" every time): set LANG=en_US ... but setting it from PHP itself (though apparently successfull) doesn't affect the loaded catalogue at all: var_dump( putenv('LANG=en_US'), getenv('LANG') ); bool(true) string(5) "en_US" I've tried every variation of putenv() or setlocale() I've been able to think about. [1] Test code: http://alvaro.es/archivos/gettext-bug-66265.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-17 08:53:17] roeycohen at gmail dot com it worked!:) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-16 18:05:16] ab@php.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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