PHP gettext does not work

Question

Gettext simply does not work for me:

    putenv('LC_ALL=zh_CN.utf8');
    setlocale(LC_ALL, 'zh_CN.utf8');
    bindtextdomain('messages', __DIR__.'/locale');
    textdomain('messages');

messages.mo location is locale/zh_CN.utf8/LC_MESSAGES.

$locale -a
C
en_AG
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
zh_CN.utf8
zh_SG.utf8

I'm on Ubuntu.

Any idea?

Is it not working in some particular way you'd like to share with us? — Álvaro González, Jun 18 '11 at 21:15
@Álvaro Nope. It manifests in gettext() and _() return original text instead of translated. — umpirsky, Jun 18 '11 at 21:46
try: `bindtextdomain('messages', __DIR__.'/locale');`, maybe it helps. I think you need full pathes. — hakre, Jun 18 '11 at 21:58
That's what I do, just pasted this for shorter writing. I hard-coded full path at the end. Will edit question to avoid confusion, thanks. — umpirsky, Jun 19 '11 at 07:45
on ubuntu you need to check wether your system supports the language. Check out my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16395484/1059828 — Karl Adler, May 06 '13 at 09:15

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '11 at 08:53

Judging this note, you are most likely missing UTF-8 bits. Those helped me with problem of “Gettext not working”.

$directory = dirname(__FILE__).'/locale';
$domain = 'mydomain';

$locale ="fi_FI.utf8";

//putenv("LANG=".$locale); //not needed for my tests, but people say it's useful for windows

setlocale( LC_MESSAGES, $locale);
bindtextdomain($domain, $directory);
textdomain($domain);
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8');

Inside locale, there should be file structure of

./locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mydomain.mo

or similar.

Important: If the mo file is already read by Apache, it needs be restarted so that it can read the new file. In other words, there is some kind of caching system I don’t know about still.

I spent time solving a problem that Statusnet (http://status.net/ - it uses gettext) does not show my language. I found an answer here! After running 'make' (generating *.mo files), I needed to **restart Apache**. Now everything works fine. — kaorukobo, Aug 06 '13 at 07:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '13 at 01:42

0

For me, it worked by restarting apache.

answered Sep 19 '13 at 01:42

Anderson Possamai

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