#41391 [Opn->Bgs]: Gettext not translating strings

ID: 41391 Updated by: mike@php.net Reported By: pprocacci at datapipe dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2 PHP Version: 5.2.2 New Comment: There are lots of user notes discussing this very problem on different operating systems. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-05-15 16:06:17] pprocacci at datapipe dot com Hi, This has been resolved by making the following changes. putenv("LANG=$language"); $locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); //$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, $language); Would you consider this to be a documetation bug of some kind? Anyways, thanks for the help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-05-15 14:44:16] pprocacci at datapipe dot com nat# echo $LANG LANG: Undefined variable. nat# echo $LANGUAGE LANGUAGE: Undefined variable. They aren't defined. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-05-15 11:18:04] mike@php.net Be sure to (un) set LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-05-15 00:47:43] pprocacci at datapipe dot com Description: ------------ Translation of strings are not working. A 'truss' of the process shows a stat of the locale directory that I want (i.e. /DOCROOT/locale) when calling bindtextdomain, but no further files/directories in that root are ever opened for reading to further process the calls that I am making, hence this bug report. Truss/strace available upon request. Example Locale Dir: ------------------- $ ls -l /DOCROOT/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.{mo,po} -rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 5729 May 9 19:51 /DOCROOT/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo* -rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 110013 May 9 19:51 /DOCROOT/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po* Operating System: ------------------------------ $ uname -a FreeBSD mysite.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 15 03:47:08 UTC 2007 root@jumpstart.teb.yep.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 Installed Extensions: --------------------------------------- $ pkg_info | fgrep php5 php5-5.2.1_3 php5-bz2-5.2.1_3 php5-ctype-5.2.1_3 php5-dom-5.2.1_3 php5-ftp-5.2.1_3 php5-gd-5.2.1_3 php5-gettext-5.2.1_3 php5-iconv-5.2.1_3 php5-mbstring-5.2.1_3 php5-mcrypt-5.2.1_3 php5-mysql-5.2.1_3 php5-openssl-5.2.1_3 php5-pcre-5.2.1_5 php5-pdo-5.2.1_3 php5-pdo_sqlite-5.2.1_3 php5-posix-5.2.1_3 php5-session-5.2.1_3 php5-simplexml-5.2.1_3 php5-spl-5.2.1_3 php5-sqlite-5.2.1_3 php5-tokenizer-5.2.1_3 php5-xml-5.2.1_3 php5-xmlreader-5.2.1_3 php5-xmlwriter-5.2.1_3 php5-zlib-5.2.1_3 Reproduce code: --------------- <?php setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, 'zh_CN.UTF-8'); textdomain("messages"); bindtextdomain("messages", "/DOCROOT/locale"); echo _("Hello"); ?> Expected result: ---------------- Weird non-English Characters. Actual result: -------------- A string that was passed to the function. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41391&edit=1