note 42631 added to function.bind-textdomain-codeset

First the the url of the gettext manual changed: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/ Secondly, lets explain a little bit what this fonction does. By default, gettext will use the LC_CTYPE of the language you choose (for example fr_FR). This LC_CTYPE is extracted from your locales.alias file in your configuration dir (Should be /etc/locales.alias). By default, the encoding is frequently iso-8859-1. So if you want to make your site utf-8 aware, you need to bind your domain with the right encoding. Here is a sample: <?php $locale="fr_FR.UTF-8" setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, $locale); $domain = 'your_text_domain'; bindtextdomain($domain, './translations_path'); textdomain($domain); bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8'); ?> As quoted in other notes, the translations path should be like /translations_path /de_DE/ /LC_MESSAGES /fr_FR/ /LC_MESSAGES ... Your translation goes in the LC_MESSAGES dirs ... Hopes this helps :) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.bind-textdomain-codeset.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+42631 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+42631&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+42631&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php