AFAIK, gettext functions do depend on setlocale. I wish so much that it wasn't the case (as you then need to have the locale installed on the system), but it is, so setlocale definetely is quite used in the wild and deprecating it seems a bit far-fetched unless we can actually replace it with something else (better).
But gettext has other issues related to being cached in the current process, as you need to restart apache if the compiled .mo files have changed to get the new strings :( Another function that is influenced by setlocale is strftime. This is often the common way to display a date in a different language. So I'm all for deprecating setlocale but before that we would need to have something better for everything that's currently depending on it :) BohwaZ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
