note 63717 added to ref.gettext

> stefan+usenet at froehlich dot priv dot at wrote at 5-May-2004 01:30: > Reading the line > > <? php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); ?> > > here over and over again, I have to warn using it, as there are severe caveats. > For certain locales, LC_NUMERIC swaps period and comma, which may e.g. lead to > decimals silently stripped of numbers, when inserting rows into an SQL database. >So DON'T do this, but use > > <? php setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, 'de_DE'); ?> > > instead, which does exactly what you want, without any nasty side effecs. For all Windows-Users: Be warned the LC_MESSAGES seems to be NOT set on Windows with PHP 5.1.2, so if you develope applications for a Linux-System and want to make it multi-language using gettext, you will get problems using LC_MESSAGES on your Windows-Developement-Box. You can try to solve this problem by putting a <?php if (!defined('LC_MESSAGES')) define('LC_MESSAGES', 6); ?> to your script to get no warning if you pass LC_MESSAGES to the setlocale()-function. ---- Server IP: 212.124.37.9 Probable Submitter: 84.63.2.175 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63717 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63717 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63717 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php