I had problems with German "umlauts" when using gettext. So, this is how it can be resolved:
I've put these lines itom my PHP code:
$domain = "messages";
bindtextdomain($domain, "path_to_messages_dir");
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'ISO-8859-15');
textdomain($domain);
It works!
bind_textdomain_codeset
(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)
bind_textdomain_codeset -- Specify the character encoding in which the messages from the DOMAIN message catalog will be returnedDescription
string bind_textdomain_codeset ( string domain, string codeset )With bind_textdomain_codeset(), you can set in which encoding will be messages from domain returned by gettext() and similar functions.
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przemekkus at interia dot pl
06-Jun-2006 02:54
06-Jun-2006 02:54
duckx at mezimail dot com
25-May-2004 02:33
25-May-2004 02:33
First the the url of the gettext manual changed:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/
Secondly, lets explain a little bit what this fonction does.
By default, gettext will use the LC_CTYPE of the language you choose (for example fr_FR).
This LC_CTYPE is extracted from your locales.alias file in your configuration dir (Should be /etc/locales.alias).
By default, the encoding is frequently iso-8859-1.
So if you want to make your site utf-8 aware, you need to bind your domain with the right encoding.
Here is a sample:
<?php
$locale="fr_FR.UTF-8"
setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, $locale);
$domain = 'your_text_domain';
bindtextdomain($domain, './translations_path');
textdomain($domain);
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8');
?>
As quoted in other notes, the translations path should be like
/translations_path
/de_DE/
/LC_MESSAGES
/fr_FR/
/LC_MESSAGES
...
Your translation goes in the LC_MESSAGES dirs ... Hopes this helps :)
kleinerwurm at gmx dot net
02-Apr-2003 10:31
02-Apr-2003 10:31
Maybe the GNU gettext documentation gives some more details:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_chapter/gettext_10.html#SEC149