note 63717 deleted from ref.gettext by nlopess

Note Submitter: ---- > 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.