ID: 47479
Updated by: jani@php.net
Reported By: szoftos at freemail dot hu
-Status: Open
+Status: To be documented
-Bug Type: Gettext related
+Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: FreeBSD 7.0
PHP Version: 5.2.9RC3
New Comment:
Gettext just does not work other than using those environment
variables. If you disable setting them, you disable gettext. This is not
a PHP bug, just another gettext limitation.
Reclassified as documentation issue since this fact isn't mentioned in
the gettext docus.
Previous Comments:
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[2009-02-23 13:13:34] szoftos at freemail dot hu
umm, sorry, i was mistyped.
I was told to set it at _startup_, but that's not good enough. I have
to set it runtime.
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[2009-02-23 13:11:41] szoftos at freemail dot hu
Description:
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Okay, i am posting this again, beacuse of my other bug was marked
bogus, and i still think it's not:
on BSD systems, setlocale itself is not usable for gettext without
putenv(). If I don't use putenv() with setlocale() (which is not enabled
by default in safe_mode=on for $LANG), my own translations are not
useable with gettext.
Since i use safe_mode, I'd not prefer enabling the setting of $LANG
variable with putenv(). What I've seen during php ktracing, is that
setlocale() only reads the original language settings from
/usr/share/locale/*, but my own translations are not looked up.
Is there any way to fix that functionality? Maybe it's more BSD related
than I think. KEEP IN MIND: If you would like to build a multi-langual
site with gettext, and the language have to be switched on-the-fly, you
HAVE TO set te $LANG variable on each run. I was told to set it at
runtime, but this is NOT an ELIGIBLE solution.
Please don't mark it bogus, because this is a real problem with
safe_mode=on.
Reproduce code:
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You can simply try the gettext module's own tests to test it in BSD.
They all will fail, because those tests aren't usint putenv().
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