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Doc Bug #41391 Gettext not translating strings
Submitted: 2007-05-15 00:47 UTC Modified: 2007-05-16 08:06 UTC
From: pprocacci at datapipe dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 5.2.2 OS: FreeBSD 6.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-05-15 00:47 UTC] pprocacci at datapipe dot com 
Description:
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Translation of strings are not working.  A 'truss' of the process shows a `stat` of the locale directory that I want (i.e. /DOCROOT/locale) when calling bindtextdomain, but no further files/directories in that root are ever opened for reading to further process the calls that I am making, hence this bug report.  Truss/strace available upon request.

Example Locale Dir:
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$ ls -l /DOCROOT/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.{mo,po}
-rwxrwxrwx  1 user  group    5729 May  9 19:51 /DOCROOT/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 user  group  110013 May  9 19:51 /DOCROOT/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po*


Operating System:
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$ uname -a
FreeBSD mysite.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 15 03:47:08 UTC 2007     root@jumpstart.teb.yep.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386


Installed Extensions:
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$ pkg_info | fgrep php5
php5-5.2.1_3
php5-bz2-5.2.1_3
php5-ctype-5.2.1_3
php5-dom-5.2.1_3
php5-ftp-5.2.1_3
php5-gd-5.2.1_3
php5-gettext-5.2.1_3
php5-iconv-5.2.1_3
php5-mbstring-5.2.1_3
php5-mcrypt-5.2.1_3
php5-mysql-5.2.1_3
php5-openssl-5.2.1_3
php5-pcre-5.2.1_5
php5-pdo-5.2.1_3
php5-pdo_sqlite-5.2.1_3
php5-posix-5.2.1_3
php5-session-5.2.1_3
php5-simplexml-5.2.1_3
php5-spl-5.2.1_3
php5-sqlite-5.2.1_3
php5-tokenizer-5.2.1_3
php5-xml-5.2.1_3
php5-xmlreader-5.2.1_3
php5-xmlwriter-5.2.1_3
php5-zlib-5.2.1_3

Reproduce code:
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<?php

setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, 'zh_CN.UTF-8');
textdomain("messages");
bindtextdomain("messages", "/DOCROOT/locale");
echo _("Hello");

?>

Expected result:
----------------
Weird non-English Characters.

Actual result:
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A string that was passed to the function.

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 [2007-05-15 11:18 UTC] mike@php.net 
Be sure to (un) set LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables.
 [2007-05-15 14:44 UTC] pprocacci at datapipe dot com 
nat# echo $LANG
LANG: Undefined variable.
nat# echo $LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE: Undefined variable.

They aren't defined.
 [2007-05-15 16:06 UTC] pprocacci at datapipe dot com 
Hi,

This has been resolved by making the following changes.

putenv("LANG=$language");
$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
//$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, $language);

Would you consider this to be a documetation bug of some kind?  Anyways, thanks for the help.
 [2007-05-16 08:06 UTC] mike@php.net 
There are lots of user notes discussing this very problem on different operating systems.
 
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