Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43570&edit=1
ID: 43570
Comment by: clicky at erebot dot net
Reported by: foo at snarf dot de
Summary: reason for some gettext errors found, need fix in
interface
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: Debian etch 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64
PHP Version: 5.2.5
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Sorry for digging up an old bug report. I'm merely posting this for
others having the same problem you described.
To circumvent this, you may use this PEAR package:
http://pear.php.net/package/File_Gettext
It provides a simple interface to load/edit/save gettext-compatible .po
& .mo files.
There's also a "php-gettext" package in some Unix distributions which
can also be used as an alternative to PHP's gettext extension.
Both of these are independent from the system's gettext library and
therefore, don't have the bug you described.
Previous Comments:
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[2007-12-11 20:43:41] foo at snarf dot de
Description:
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gettext works fine on one server, the precisely same source and
.mo-Files fail to work on another (same OS, same PHP versions).
Reproduce code:
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See some minimal gettext sample code on the web like the one below, it
happens with all, really.
<?php
setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,'az_AZ');
bindtextdomain("test","./locale");
textdomain("test");
echo _("text to translate");
?>
Expected result:
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I would have expected gettext to work the same on both servers.
Actual result:
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One server returned the expected result, the other just returned the
message ID (gettext parameter).
I've found some similar reports on the web and here, but no solution
yet; that's why I dug into it.
Turns out, even if the correct .mo file is in the correct location,
gettext fails if the respective *system* locale isn't installed.
This is (somewhat) documented behaviour. But one doesn't get an
exception, log entry or error message - just the default value. Which
makes it REALLY hard to debug, especially when the server is a remote
web host.
I suggest changing the gettext interface such as not finding the system
locales for the selected language (if they are _really_ necessary)
throws an Exception the fact.
That way, people at least know what happened.
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