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16 years ago
Pay attention to the syntax.

- UTF8 without dash ('-')

- locale.codeset and not locale-codeset.



Stupid newbie error but worth knowing them when starting with gettext.



<?php

$codeset = "UTF8";  // warning ! not UTF-8 with dash '-'

        

// for windows compatibility (e.g. xampp) : theses 3 lines are useless for linux systems 



putenv('LANG='.$lang.'.'.$codeset);

putenv('LANGUAGE='.$lang.'.'.$codeset);

bind_textdomain_codeset('mydomain', $codeset);



// set locale

bindtextdomain('mydomain', ABSPATH.'/locale/');

setlocale(LC_ALL, $lang.'.'.$codeset);

textdomain('mydomain');

?>



where directory structure of locale is (for example) :

locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/mydomain.mo

locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/mydomain.mo



and ABSPATH is the absolute path to the locale dir



further note, under linux systems, it seems to be necessary to create the locale at os level using 'locale-gen'.
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