troubles with PHP setlocale and iso-8859-1 encoding

Question

I have created a website using iso-8859-1 encoding, and I want to display the date in French.

Here is the file I use for test :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="fr">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8859-1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88591"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>
    </body>
 </html>

When I open this file I get : Thursday 08 August 2013. instead of Jeudi 08 Août 2013. (french).

I have tried using UTF-8 and it works correctly but it is not what I want...

I have checked the language packages installed on my server and everything seems correct :

server$ sudo locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
français
french
fr_FR
fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX

If you have any ideas to solve this problem it would be very cool.

EDIT : typos corrected !

Yes I have made a mistake, I mean `setlocale`. – EMG Aug 08 '13 at 14:45 — EMG, Aug 08 '13 at 14:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 14:43

You had typos. Change the "setlocal" and "8895-1"

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="fr">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8895-1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <?php setlocal(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88951"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>
    </body>
 </html>

to "setlocale" and "8859-1", respectively.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="fr">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8859-1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88591"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>
    </body>
 </html>

Oh yes, sorry for that too... I correct these (huge) mistakes but the problem still the same... — EMG, Aug 08 '13 at 14:49

Jonast92 · Answer 2 · 2013-08-08T15:05:01.970

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Like I pointed out in my comment, it should be setlocale, not setlocal.

A quick Google search pointed me to this website which indicates that you should be doing

setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.ISO-8859-1");

instead of

setlocal(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88951");

EDIT :

Try this:

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88591");
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'C');
echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y.");
?>

I haven't tried it but it's worth a shot.

edited Aug 08 '13 at 15:05

answered Aug 08 '13 at 14:48

Jonast92

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It does not work. I think that the string has to be the same as one of the `locale` ouput... – EMG Aug 08 '13 at 14:54
I edited my post. It's worth a shot. If it's not it then I'm simply out of clues, sorry. – Jonast92 Aug 08 '13 at 15:05

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 14:49

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Typo in your code (setlocal should be setlocale):

<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>

Also make sure the French locale is available on your system:

locale -a

To see what locales are available (unix).

answered Aug 08 '13 at 14:49

Remko

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Can't test it locally for you in French. – Remko Aug 08 '13 at 15:31

troubles with PHP setlocale and iso-8859-1 encoding

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