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Bug #32372 strftime doesn't support UTF-8 for Greek locale
Submitted: 2005-03-19 10:17 UTC Modified: 2005-03-19 16:32 UTC
From: contact at zefxis dot gr Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.0.3 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-03-19 10:17 UTC] contact at zefxis dot gr 
Description:
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The code below should display today's day and month in the Greek locale.

All I get is a bunch of "?" for each letter of the words. If I remove the UTF-8 header I get the proper Greek words.



Reproduce code:
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<?php

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
setlocale (LC_TIME, 'gr');
echo strftime("%A %B");

?>

Expected result:
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??????? ???????

Actual result:
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??????? ???????

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 [2005-03-19 14:41 UTC] derick@php.net 
No bug, you need to set the greek UTF8 locale:

gr.UTF-8
 [2005-03-19 15:20 UTC] contact at zefxis dot gr 
The following returns "Saturday March". In other words there's no locale by the value of 'gr.UTF-8' on Windows XP (also tried 'el_GR.UTF-8'). Maybe it only exists on *nix systems.

<?php

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
setlocale (LC_TIME, 'gr.UTF-8');
echo strftime("%A %B");

?>
 [2005-03-19 16:32 UTC] sniper@php.net 
That's not PHP's fault.
 
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