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Offline thosecars82Topic starter

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gettext and poedit under xampp
« on: April 12, 2010, 09:14:54 AM »
Hello
I have a problem.
Altough I got gettext working under a remote server environment, I have not got it working yet under a XAMPP installation. I have made sure that gettext is enabled by going to http://localhost and looking into phpinfo.

The code is really simple:
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<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.arreglaordenador.com" );
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$language
="es_ES";
putenv("LC_ALL=$language");
setlocale(LC_ALL$language);
bindtextdomain("messages""./locale");
textdomain("messages");
print 
"<p>"._("This website is written in English")."</p>\n";
?>

</body>
</html>

Any idea?
Thanks

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Re: gettext and poedit under xampp
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2010, 06:10:50 AM »
Sorry, I just realized that I had not described the problem accurately. The problem is that I have this simple code
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<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.arreglaordenador.com" );
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$language
="fr_FR";
putenv("LC_ALL=$language");
setlocale(LC_ALL$language);
bindtextdomain("messages""./locale");
textdomain("messages");
print 
"<p>"._("hi! This website is written in English.")."</p>\n";
?>

</body>
</html>
and no matter what string I set the variable $language with that gettext will always look for a translation in the folder locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES whether the language is Spanish (es_ES) or not. For example, in the above code, gettext will not look for the French translation as it should in
locale\fr_FR\LC_MESSAGES but it will look for the translation into the folder corresponding to Spanish language, that is to say, locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES.

Moreover, if gettext does not find the folder locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES then
it will display the string in the original language(English) even if $language equals "fr_FR" and at the same time there is a locale\fr_FR\LC_MESSAGES folder created and the corresponding messages.mo and messages.po files created in this folder.



I made sure that I re-run Apache and MySql under Xampp whenever I change anything in the code but it keeps having this behaviour anyways.

Do you have any idea about why only translations in .po files in the Spanish folder locale\es_ES\LC_MESSAGES are considered and not those translations corresponding to other languages and other folders?

Thanks in advance.