Re: issues with gettext on multithreaded servers

> I have found some problems (and possible solutions) concerning use of the > gettext extension on multithreaded servers. The gettext library caches information in static variables..... This is true in gettext 0.10.40 at least, which is that last that I looked in. This has a number of "features" that are less than desirable with PHP. First - thread safety.... what thread saftey ? Second - as the locale is cached in static data when gettext is first initialized, I have yet to figure out how you could use this to support multiple locales in series (ie Apache 1.3) much less in parallel (Apache 2.0 with worker). I found that after changing the local variable, and then reopening the cat file that I was getting the old local, which is why I went looking into this. This of course was made more fun by that fact that I had 20 Apache procs running - each with a different cached locale as I was trying to figure out my semi random results. Maybe I missed something when I was looking into this (like some other way to call gettext). If so I would love to hear about it. dave