Re: issues with gettext on multithreaded servers

Hi Nathan, In short, don't rely on the system locale support then :/ (You can't rely on it even between different versions of glibc, let alone difference flavours of UNIX). A win32nls extension is a good idea and a nice candidate for PECL. Perhaps it would be a good idea to develop a PEAR package that sits on top of the win32nls and/or UNIX nls functions to provide a portable API for PHP scripts? --Wez. On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Nathan Fredrickson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have found some problems (and possible solutions) concerning use of the > gettext extension on multithreaded servers. ... > The alternative then is to call SetThreadLocale() through a new php > extension. I think this should be seperate from the gettext extension since > locales are used more widely than just gettext. My current idea is to > create an extension named w32nls. This would be a win32 only extension that > would provide access to a collection of the functions in the win32 NLS API > [1] including Get/SetThreadLocale(). ... > The downside however will be increased incompatibility between win32 and > unix based PHP applications if such an extension is ever widely used. > > I welcome any feedback on these ideas before I proceed. > Thanks, Nathan