Setlocale windows utf8

UTF-8' ;. I wanted to test something based on locale, and reset the locale after the tests were done. You need to use constants.

On Linux, setlocale depends on the installed locales. To see which locales are available to PHP, run this from the terminal: "locale -a" Provided list are all locales that are available on your server for PHP to use. Posting this in the hope it might be useful to others, as I could find very little info anywhere.

Cheers, Bryn. To complement Sven K's tip about debian: You can also install the package locales-all That one holds all the locales there are in compiled form.

UTF-8" on unix, please do tell me. When i tried to get the current locale e. My script runs a loop that changes the locale multilingual application. I've noticed that on some random occasion the locale still hasn't changed despite the setlocale function being executed a step earlier. I had to add wait time for this condition.

UTF8' locale. Recently I tried adding GetText into Laravel manually, so I can confirm that it is possible to have an OS-independant way of implementing internationalisation. Are you sure this works on Windows? UTF8 is not supported by any Windows version, so I doubt that works. Windows will fall back on the default language setting in this case.

As for having a different setting on each server, that is correct. That is one of the nasty side effects of setlocale, as this text from the php website explains:. Yes I understand, but I guarantee that it works. So I guess the difference is that your code acts upon the return value false and throws an Exception. My code simply ignores the return value. In that case it seems to work smoothly. Your code suggestion ignores the error, but it also ignores the failure the setlocale has encountered.

Your suggestion may enable you to use the package on windows without it throwing exceptions, but it's not actually working. Because I would find that difficult to believe based on what I have read about setlocale so far which is quite significant.

That is why I added the fetch CLI command, so that it is easy to populate the locales and encodings files; unfortunately, that also doesn't work on windows. If you really want to use 1 locale definition on all systems, I suggest you build in a failsafe in your code which checks for Windows and catches the exception if it is thrown, but that may result in odd behaviour on other systems.

We have translated those strings using POedit. When I set my browser language to Dutch, my page is displayed in Dutch. In case of any other setting, the page remains in English. I've tested on both Windows and CentOS.

Would you humor me and see what the setlocale function in your code sample returns? False or the locale? As I've mentioned above, the setlocale returns false, even though it sets the locale correctly in Windows. The problem with this, is that indeed you'll never know if it has been set correctly or not.

A stupid window flaw, I know. When setting locale on Windows you must uses a dash in the locale string instead of a dash. Skip to content. New replies are no longer allowed. General encoding. However, after installing, the default locale on my system Windows 10 is: Sys. Rprofile via calls like Sys. CloutsCa CloutsCa 21 2 2 bronze badges. Welcome to SO, and thanks for your answer. If you look at the question in more detail you'll notice that it's nearly 2 years old, and the author had already accepted answer that they felt answered their question adequately.

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