Bug #30597 [Com]: GETTEXT strings occasionally don't get translated

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30597&edit=1 ID: 30597 Comment by: jannacecek at seznam dot cz Reported by: schnaaf at home dot nl Summary: GETTEXT strings occasionally don't get translated Status: No Feedback Type: Bug Package: Gettext related Operating System: FreeBSD 4.7 PHP Version: 4.3.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I have the same problem with gettext and dockerized debian (FROM php:7.4-apache). For me it takes exactly 102 page reloads to switch between a translation and the default text (102 times transalted string, then 102 times untranslated string). I'm puzzled! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-10-04 13:33:25] c3337963 at urhen dot com Reproduced for PHP 5.3 / Appweb 4.7 / gettext 0.19 on Linux with code like: ---------------- ... // we want only LC_MESSAGES to be affected, so... // (according to http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html) putenv('LANGUAGE='); putenv('LANG=POSIX'); setlocale(LC_ALL, ''); setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, 'cs_CZ.utf8'); bindtextdomain('messages', '/opt/app/locale'); bind_textdomain_codeset('messages', 'UTF-8'); textdomain('messages'); ... // and now use _() ... ---------------- and /opt/app/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo file. Also one can check the following SO link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10508305/gettext-works-sometimes Is there any workarounds or something? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-09-06 12:35:04] teemu at 1up dot fi Just for a notice, you have to restart Apache (or whatever) every single time when you do any kind of modifications into the translations file. If you don't, gettext will sometimes return your new string but instead it will return more often that string, what's passed to it as an argument. So the translation with gettext don't work properly if you don't restart your www-daemon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-07 10:31:27] c dot affolter at stepping-stone dot ch Same problem encountered with PHP 5.1.0RC1/Apache 2, gettext 0.13. As mentioned in the previous comment, it seems to be a PHP issue, since the translation is working correctly via the native gettext command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-02-23 22:32:24] wolfgang dot pichler at ivv dot tuwien dot ac dot at same phenomenon observed in project www.emilda.org from different people with different versions of apache,php,gettext,linux .... VERY SPURIOUS i would think it is some major php design bug :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-15 01:00:08] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=30597 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30597&edit=1