Re: [PHP] setlocale Q

2003-10-23 Thread Christophe Chisogne
jsWalter wrote:
   setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_GR");
gives me 'October'?
   setlocale(LC_TIME, "de");
gives me 'October'?
   setlocale(LC_TIME, "d");
gives me 'oktober'?
I'm on a Win 2k box.
Because locales are really system dependant, as you could
clearly see using gettext translations. (I did fight with it ;)
Win boxes (like yours) uses (M$) non standard locale names like
English_United_States, French_Belgian, German_Standard, etc
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/win2k/setup/localsupport.mspx
For Unix boxes, better use fr_BE, fr_FR (better avoid fr).
Aliases like french can work, depending of local config.
Syntax is simply _
where lang_code is the 2-letter std (iso639-2)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html
and country_code is the 2-letter std (iso3166)
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html
If lucky, you can hope some common names are used,
generally "french", "german", "dutch". But if you use gettext
translations, the path used to fetch translations will differ
(./locale/fr_BE/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo for Unix boxes,
 ./locale/french/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo for Win boxes).
Seems there's no easy way other than copy the translations,
if you're code is supposed to run across platforms :(
PS Perhaps you can try the more specific php-i18n list.

Cheers,

Christophe

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[PHP] setlocale Q

2003-10-22 Thread jsWalter
Why does...

   // assume October...
   setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_GR");
   echo strftime("%d. %B %Y");

gives me 'October'?

and this...

   // assume October...
   setlocale(LC_TIME, "de");
   echo strftime("%d. %B %Y");

gives me 'October'?

and this...

   // assume October...
   setlocale(LC_TIME, "d");
   echo strftime("%d. %B %Y");

gives me 'oktober'?


I'm on a Win 2k box.

Walter

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