Bug #76513 [Com]: locale for day of week
Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76513&edit=1
ID: 76513
Comment by: jluc at no-log dot org
Reported by: jluc at no-log dot org
Summary: locale for day of week
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: *General Issues
Operating System: linux
PHP Version: 7.2.6
Assigned To: cmb
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
setlocale fails or is not consistent.
It should be deprecated or fixed.
Previous Comments:
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[2018-06-24 10:53:23] cmb@php.net
From the docs[1]:
| If locale is an array or followed by additional parameters then
| each array element or parameter is tried to be set as new locale
| until success. This is useful if a locale is known under different
| names on different systems or for providing a fallback for a
| possibly not available locale.
Also check the return value of setlocale() to see whether it
failed, and act appropriately.
[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php>
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[2018-06-23 22:08:57] jluc at no-log dot org
I tried also on various php online sandboxes :
WRONG :
https://wtools.io/php-sandbox -> 7.2.3 in French
Saturday andbool(false)
http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/ ->
7.2.4 in French Saturday andbool(false)
https://3v4l.org/qfWTr-> 7.3.0alpha1 in French Saturday
andbool(false)
RIGHT :
http://www.writephponline.com/-> 7.0.30 in French
samedi andstring(5) "fr_FR"
If i understand well the issue is with setlocale's parameter.
Further tests on my local machine showed, i have to write setlocale("fr_FR.utf8");
This works. (instead of plain "fr_FR")
This syntax is mentionned in some comments of https://secure.php.net/manual/fr/function.setlocale.php
but not in the official doc itself.
Shouldnt that be explained ?
Is that a portable and safe way to go ?
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[2018-06-23 21:46:20] jluc at no-log dot org
On my locale machine here are the results :
$ locale -a | grep fr
fr_BE.utf8
fr_CA.utf8
fr_CH.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
fr_LU.utf8
$ php -f str.php
7.1.17-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
in French Saturday andbool(false)
(i added echo phpversion() to your proposed script)
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[2018-06-21 14:50:26] danack@php.net
I can't reproduce this issue. Please could you run on the command line:
```
locale -a | grep fr
```
and also run
```
$result = setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
echo strftime(" in French %A and");
var_dump($result);
```
and give the output for both.
The simplest explanation would be that the fr_FR locale is not available on your system for whatever
reason.
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[2018-06-21 14:07:19] jluc at no-log dot org
Description:
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---
From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.strftime
---
"Format the time and/or date according to locale settings. Month and weekday names and other
language-dependent strings respect the current locale set with setlocale()."
BUT day of week are allways english, whatever the locale
The given example is :
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
echo strftime(" in French %A and");
but the output is not displayed in http://www.php.net/function.strftime
AMOF, output is
in French Thursday and Thu
Which is not the expected : "in French Jeudi and Jeu"
Expected result:
----------------
Either documentation is wrong and setlocale is not efficient with dayofweeks names
Either this is a bug
Anyway, the output for this example should be included in the documentation (not only the PHP
source) as it's done for other examples.
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