[dev] [Patch] Localization problems with strftime

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Thierry Thomas <thierry@pompo.net>:

> Le 06/08/2002 à 05:53:42 +0200, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>
> écrivait :
> > > On some platforms (e.g. FreeBSD), strftime is not localized if
> setlocale
> > > is not set. For example IMP, Kronolith, Nag, etc. show un-localized
> > > dates.
> > 
> > We already call setlocale() from NLS::setLang().
> 
> OK, but it'is not sufficient (at least on FreeBSD): if I replace my
> previous patch by
> 
> --- base.php.orig       Sat Jul 27 22:07:21 2002
> +++ base.php    Tue Aug  6 09:58:33 2002
> @@ -42,4 +42,6 @@
>  $notification = &Notification::singleton();
>  $notification->attach('status');
>  
> +NLS::setLang();
> +
>  ?>
> 
> it does nothing. In setLang(), $lang = "fr_FR" (or "de_DE", etc.), and
> setlocale (LC_TIME, xx) requires something like "fr_FR.ISO8859-15" (or
> "de_DE.ISO8859-1", etc.).
> 
> With NLS::setLang(), strftime returns the value for locale set to "C",
> with strings and format in english.

Then you probably don't have an alias set from fr_FR to fr_FR.ISO8859-15.
There are more systems out there that have locales installed without charset
variants than systems that have locales with variants and no locales without.

Jan.

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