Re[4]: [PHP] Q on setlocale...

Hi, Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 2:15:10 AM, you wrote: j> "Tom Rogers" <trogers@kwikin.com> wrote in message j> news:59297262953.20031001014737@kwikin.com... >> Those locales actually have to be available or they will be ignored and j> that >> will depend on what type of system your running on. j> OK, I'm on Windows 2k, and after reading Microsofts docs, I thought it was j> all there. j> Maybe not. >> For example on my system (linux) I had to do >> >> localedef -ci es_ES -f ISO_8859-1:1987 es_ES >> >> and then a restart on apache to get the Spanish locale working. j> Restart the server? j> No way to set this on the fly? >> (Did I mention manuals :) j> No, but I got 2 private messages stating "RTFM" and no other comments. They j> were a big help. :/ j> I'm beginning to think this is tougher than I thought. j> :/ j> What I'm trying to do is have my new Class be aware of the LOCALE setting j> and take advantage of that info to return translated strings based upon that j> setting. j> I was hoping not to have a method in my Class to define LOCALE, I wanted to j> pick it up from the system, and even let the user set it on the fly. j> Thanks for your help Tom. j> Walter Under windows you could go to control panel ->regional settings ->input locales and try adding a few and see if that helps. I only know about apache and that did need a restart to get it to recognize the new locales available as I think it caches that information. -- regards, Tom