[5.2.5] Supporting European locales?

[Gilles Ganault]

Hello

What does it take to support locales? The following test code found on
the PHP site doesn't work as planned:

=======
setlocale(LC_TIME, "C");
echo strftime("%A");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fi_FI");
echo strftime(" in Finnish is %A,");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
echo strftime(" in French %A and");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_DE");
echo strftime(" in German %A.\n");
=======
Wednesday in Finnish is Wednesday, in French Wednesday and in German
Wednesday.
=======

I have a YYYY-MM-DD-formatted date in MySQL that I'd like to display
as "Weekday DD/MM/YYYY".

Do I need to recompile PHP or its extensions with a given switch, or
do I need some extra libraries in Linux?

Thank you.

[Gilles Ganault]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:39:04 +0100, Gilles Ganault <no****@nospam.com>
wrote:

>What does it take to support locales? The following test code found on
the PHP site doesn't work as planned:

For those interested, here's what I found out, on a FreeBSD 6.3 host:

1. date() only uses the US locale, even if you call setlocale()
beforehand.

2. The following doesn't work:
setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr_FR");
setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr-FR");
setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr-FR");

3. The following works:

setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr_FR.ISO8859-1");
setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr_FR.ISO8859-1");
echo strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y",strtotime("2008-03-16"));

HTH,

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Gilles Ganault)

>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:39:04 +0100, Gilles Ganault <no****@nospam.com>
wrote:

>>What does it take to support locales? The following test code found on
the PHP site doesn't work as planned:

For those interested, here's what I found out, on a FreeBSD 6.3 host:

1. date() only uses the US locale, even if you call setlocale()
beforehand.

Correct. For locale-dependent output you have to use strftime().

>2. The following doesn't work:
setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr_FR");
setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr-FR");
setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr-FR");

3. The following works:

setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr_FR.ISO8859-1");
setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr_FR.ISO8859-1");
echo strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y",strtotime("2008-03-16"));

It always depends on which locales are installed on the system.

Micha

[Gilles Ganault]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:20:40 +0100, Michael Fesser <ne*****@gmx.de>
wrote:

>It always depends on which locales are installed on the system.

Right. Use "locale -a" to find what locales are installed.

[AnrDaemon]

Greetings, Gilles Ganault.
In reply to Your message dated Thursday, March 27, 2008, 02:26:52,

>>It always depends on which locales are installed on the system.

Right. Use "locale -a" to find what locales are installed.

It is possible to access list of installed locales through PHP?
Or, alternatively, where to get such list for the Windows host?
--
Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <an*******@freemail.ru>