The way how CakePHP handles the message translation is not affected by setlocale and thus you would get 'monday' in that case. Cake uses a PHP only solution for translating messages working around the limitations of gettext in PHP.
- David On 29 Jul., 04:29, ohcibi <i...@dwgadf.de> wrote: > okay, i didnt knew that.. > but anyway, if another script uses setlocale you're running into the > same problem (the stringsubstitution expects monday, but gets lundi > und does nothing, so the user gets lundi at the end). so lets hope php > will do things better in the future 8-) > > On Jul 29, 2:03 am, David Persson <davidpers...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > I don't want to overemphasize this but you cannot safely use setlocale > > (). With some setups it might be OK to rely on it but in general I > > wouldn't recommend using it. As you can read in the warning message > > athttp://php.net/setlocalethefunction is maintained for the whole > > process not per thread. Which means that if you're running a > > multithreaded server and you're setting the locale at the very > > beginning and localize at the end when processing the response of a > > request sth like this might happen: > > > setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US') strftime('%A') > > | | > > A >---------------------------------------< > > > setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR') strftime('%A') > > | | > > B >---------------------------------------< > > > Assumed today is monday, the english speaking user gets 'lundi' > > instead of the expected 'monday'. Currently for something like > > localizing the month names, doing message translation is the better > > choice even though I see the limitations of it. > > > - David > > > On 28 Jul., 23:52, ohcibi <i...@dwgadf.de> wrote: > > > > you should _never_ do any stringsubstitutions for localizing month > > > names... _always_ use setlocale and maybe an extra helper for more > > > comfort. stringsubstitutions are an unnecessary extra task and may not > > > even work proper (e.g. if the php setup has another default language) > > > > On Jul 28, 11:03 am, Piotr Kilczuk <kilc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > with "ger" it didn't work but when I changed the folder name to > > > > > "deu" (and also the value in Config.language of course) it worked like > > > > > a charme. > > > > > For some reason it seems that it has(!) to be named "deu".... > > > > > anyway, thanks a lot! > > > > > That's good. German has two ISO-639-2 codes, I thought you could use > > > > both, thanks for sharing your knowledge :) > > > > > Regards, > > > > Piotr > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
