note 23095 added to ref.gettext

From: Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:39:41 +0000
Subject: note 23095 added to ref.gettext
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Hello, For users with Red Hat GNU/Linux (at least 6.2) to use gettext, I'd like to make some notes here : 1. Calling setlocale() is necessary, where calling putenv('LANG=xx_YY') or putenv('LC_ALL=xx_YY') is not. 2. The country/language code should be in the "language_country" form,such as, "en_US" or "fr_FR", or any entry in /usr/share/locale/locale.aliase . The simple ISO two-letter code, such as "en" , is not valid. You can examine the return value of setlocale to see if the locale setting succeeds. This took me several hours to debug. I hope my experience can save you some time. This may apply to other Linux distributions or *BSD systems. I don't know. I hope this helps. Yen-Wei Liu -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gettext.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+23095 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+23095 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+23095

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