[dev] Question marks and problems with gettext reencoding...

[Romans Malinovskis]

-- Monday, November 19, 2001 -- 11:01:55 AM -- Jan Schneider ----------------
>> Just  spent  half  a  night trying to find out why gettext is printing
>> out question marks instead of
>> russian  / latvian characters... The problem was because of probably
>> broken glibc i18n support.
>> 
>> 
>> in  a  shell, environment  variable OUTPUT_CHARSET specify which charset
>> terminal is capable of, but
>> latest stable PHP does not have any way to chane this one on the fly
>> (development snapshot does have
>> this patch applied on 8 nov 2001)
>> 
>> here is a patch for function bind_textdomain_codeset which allows to
>> change output codeset.
>> 
>> http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200111/msg00402.html
>> 
>> 
>> you can use
>>   bind_textdomain_codeset('imp',$nls['charsets'][$language]);
>> to change output codeset for imp.

> Did you also try if setting OUTPUT_CHARSET from within php [setenv()] does 
> work?

i tried..
no, it doesn't.
however it works if defined before apache/php is run...


romans