gettext() troubles

Hello List, I am facing some troubles with gettext. phpinfo() says that both of gettext and iconv extensions are installed properly, I can call gettext() function but it never translates my strings returning the original key every time. Here is the code: <?php putenv("LANG=ru_RU"); setlocale (LC_ALL,"ru"); $domain = 'messages'; echo bindtextdomain ($domain, 'D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng'); echo textdomain ($domain); echo bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8'); echo gettext("string"); ?> Below is the output: D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng messages UTF-8 string All of the language files are in the following location: D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng\ru\LC_MESSAGES\ D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng\ru\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng\ru\LC_MESSAGES\messages.mo The files were created with poEdit utility and look fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day, Denis S Gerasimov Web Developer Team Force LLC Web: <http://www.team-force.org/> www.team-force.org RU & Int'l: +7 8362-468693 email: denis.gerasimov@team-force.org