#21447 [Opn]: gettext stopped working

ID: 21447 Updated by: sniper@php.net -Summary: HTTP::negotiateLanguage() severely bugged. Reported By: vigna@acm.org Status: Open Bug Type: Gettext related Operating System: Linux Red Hat 8.0 PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: restored correct summary. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-11 18:19:40] vigna@acm.org No, I am using a stock Red Hat 8.0 and by default it should use the old process-per-request model (at least, httpd -l gives Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c Any suggestion? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-05 18:58:36] iliaa@php.net Which worker model are you using? If you are using a thread based (worker) model you should be aware that gettext library is NOT thread safe and therefor you will encounter problems when you try using it within the threaded enviroment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-05 18:55:58] vigna@acm.org After installing Red Hat Linux 8.0 with Apache 2, gettext support stopped working. I am using the sequence of calls putenv("LANG=".$_ERW_locale); setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, $_ERW_locale); bindtextdomain("ERW", $_ERW_localePath); textdomain("ERW"); to bind the text domain, and this worked perfectly in several different ERW installations (http://erw.dsi.unimi.it/) up to the upgrade. It is very difficult to give any other hint. If you create a script like <?php putenv("LANG=it_IT"); setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "it_IT"); bindtextdomain("ERW", "/home/vigna/cvs/ERW/php/locale"); textdomain("ERW"); print _("something translated"); ?> and the translation file is located as follows /home/vigna/cvs/ERW/php/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/ERW.mo the string does not get translated. The complete lack of feedback of any of the gettext package functions makes it also very difficult to understand what's going wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21447&edit=1