I am dealing with this problem quite a while and this is not my first question to it, but still I can not get localization to work correctly.
I use WAMP server and php gettext.
A simple code I made for demonstration of my problem:
/* dirs */
$directory = realpath('../locale');
$domain = 'messages';
/* trying to find out correct setting - last one is winner */
$locale ="ro";
$locale ="ro_utf8";
$locale ="ro_RO";
$locale ="ro_RO.UTF-8";
$locale ="Romanian_Romania.1250";
putenv("LANG=".$locale);
print setlocale( LC_ALL, $locale);
setlocale( LC_ALL, $locale);
bindtextdomain($domain, $directory);
textdomain($domain);
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8');
/* STRING TO BE TRANSLATED */
echo _('string');
In ../locale directory there are many folders like this - $language_name/LC_MESSAGES/. These contain corresponding .po and . mo files with translations like this:
msgid "string"
msgstr "string SK"
in sk_SK folder
or this
msgid "string"
msgstr "string RO"
in ro, ro_RO, ro_RO.UTF8, ro_RO.UTF-8, romanian, Romanian_Romania, Romanian_Romania.1250 folders.
And what document looks like:
Romanian_Romania.1250 string SK
So you can see clearly - I setlocale() to romanian, yet my text is translated using the translation in sk_SK directory. What am I doing wrong?
Are there some functions I could use to get informations about $locale strings and directory names my server expects to find?
try to do your code like this:
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ro_RO','Romanian');
it had worked in my project
You can help :
locale -a
And you can whach the language exist in your computer.
sudo locale-gen pt_PT
sudo locale-gen pt_PT.utf8
sudo update-locale
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$folder = "locale";
$domain = "messages";
$encoding = "UTF-8";
putenv("LC_ALL=" . $language);
setlocale(LC_ALL, $language);
bindtextdomain($domain, $folder);
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, $encoding);
textdomain($domain);
$language has been previously set to fr_FR (i checked) and whenever i call echo _("HELLO_WORLD"); (for an example), it only returns translation in english (en_US). I've properly set all the folders ( path to french .mo file is locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo ), I've translated "HELLO_WORLD" both into english and french (using Poedit), i tried adding ".UTF-8" to the $language string, but nothing works, it still only shows english translation. I also tried restarting Apache web server every time i made changes to .mo files. Does someone know why does this occur?
I'm using Win10 64bit and XAMPP v3.2.2.
I use a WAMP server on Windows and make a test project.
I have these files in the website folder:
C:\wamp\www\project\locale\ar_EG\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po
C:\wamp\www\project\locale\en_US\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po
Below is the PHP Code:
$language="en_US";
$encoding = "UTF-8";
putenv("LANG=".$language);
setlocale(LC_ALL,$language);
$domain="messages"; // name of PO file
bindtextdomain($domain,"Locale");
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, $encoding);
textdomain($domain);
echo gettext("name");
Above code is working fine.
When I try to replace en_US with ar_EG it also displays the translation for en_US, and when I try to remove the en_US folder and try again it displays the msgid not msgstr.
I searched and found that there is a problem with setlocale on the Windows platform, but I need a solution for it to run on Windows.
setlocale() on Windows has issues.
From setLocale() in PHP Manual:
Windows users will find useful information about locale strings at
Microsoft's MSDN website. Supported language strings can be found in
the » language strings documentation and supported country/region
strings in the » country/region strings documentation.
You might try to use $language = 'english-us'; instead of $language = 'en_US';.
I'm not sure about the language code for ar_eg, maybe Arabic_Egypt or Arabic_Egypt.1256.
If that doesn't work, you still have the option to use a PHP library, which implements gettext,
like https://github.com/oscarotero/Gettext or https://launchpad.net/php-gettext.
I made it work on windows with following code:
$locale = 'en_US';
if(!defined('LC_MESSAGES') || !setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale)) {
putenv("LC_ALL=$locale");
}
$domain = 'messages';
$path = "C:\wamp\www\project\locale";
$codeset = 'UTF-8';
bindtextdomain($domain, $path);
textdomain($domain);
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, $codeset);
echo gettext("name");
I have working localization in my project. Working means that my project gets translated to whatever language I have in the locale/sk folder, sk for slovak being my default system language.
Setting to any other language doesn't work. I have tried $lang = 'cs', 'cz', 'en', 'en_UK', 'en_UK.utf8' and others. Still, only the translation in the 'sk' folder is taken and still the setlocale() function returns false. I have tried to change default language in browser - no effect.
This is my code:
putenv("LANG=$lang");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $lang);
bindtextdomain("messages", realpath("../localem"));
textdomain("messages");
...
_("Welcome!")
I have also tried these:
putenv("LANGUAGE=$lang");
putenv('LC_ALL=$lang');
Any suggestions are welcome.
Edit:
$loc = array('nor');
if (setlocale(LC_ALL, $loc)==false) print ' false'; else print setlocale(LC_ALL, $loc);
'nor' prints Norwegian (Bokmĺl)_Norway.1252, 'rus' russian, but 'svk' prints false and so does 'cze'.
On the list all of these are mentioned:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cdax410z%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
Windows uses another format for the locale setting, see MSDN: List of Country/Region Strings.
You can send a list of locales to setlocale by sending in an array, such as to get Norwegian month names and time formats:
setlocale(LC_TIME, array('nb_NO.UTF-8', 'no_NO.UTF-8', 'nor'));
Windows might however return strings in another encoding than UTF-8, so you might want to handle this manually (converting from cpXXXX to UTF-8).
I've searched hours for a solution for this including in the documentation.
trying to use gettext for hebrew translations,
using PHP 5.3.1 and wamp,
it prints out "hello world" and not the Hebrew equivalent
$directory = '/locale';
$domain = 'messages';
$locale ="he_IL";
putenv("LANG=".$locale); //not needed for my tests, but people say it's useful for windows
setlocale( LC_ALL, $locale);
bindtextdomain($domain, $directory);
textdomain($domain);
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8');
echo _("hello world");
I use poedit to create the mo/po files, they are located on:
./locale/he_IL/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
the php file is at "./"
Why don't I get the hebrew text?
Ok solved,
Had to update to PHP version 5.3.5/5.3.10
and because I'm using windows I had to use this locale "Hebrew_Israel.1255"
instead of "he_IL" (that's how windows calls the hebrew locale anyway).
Of course I had to also rename the folders in the ./locale to "Hebrew_Israel.1255"
Now the system successfully chooses the locale
as pointed out by MarcB, PHP isn't magically going to translate the words into different language for you. but there are several different solutions out there to help you out. you can make use of google translator API to convert the text between different languages for example.
try {
$gt = new Gtranslate;
echo "Translating [Hello World] from English to German => ".$gt->english_to_german("hello world")."<br/>";
echo "Translating [Ciao mondo] Italian to English => ".$gt->it_to_en("Ciao mondo")."<br/>";
} catch (GTranslateException $ge) {
echo $ge->getMessage();
}
you can read more about google translator API here http://code.google.com/p/gtranslate-api-php/
You should check that "he_IL" locale is installed in your system. I don't know how to do it in Windows, but in Linux you can run "locale -a"(http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_locale.htm) to see all locales installed.
I am trying to use the PHP gettext extension in order to translate some strings. All functions appear to return the correct values but calling gettext()/_() returns the original string only. The PO/MO files seem correct and I believe I have set the directories up correctly. I am running WAMP Server with PHP 5.3.10 on Windows (also tried running 5.3.4 and 5.3.8 because I have the installations).
Firstly, see /new2/www/index.php:
$locale = 'esn'; # returns Spanish_Spain.1252 in var dump
putenv("LC_ALL={$locale}"); // Returns TRUE
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale); // Returns 'Spanish_Spain.1252'
$domain = 'messages';
bindtextdomain($domain, './locale'); // Returns C:\wamp\www\new2\www\locale
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8'); // Returns UTF-8
textdomain($domain); // Returns'messages'
print gettext("In the dashboard"); // Prints the original text, not the translation.
exit;
I have created the following file structure:
www/new2/www/locale/Spanish_Spain.1252/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
I have also tried replacing Spanish_Spain.1252 with: es_ES, esn, esp, Spanish, and Spanish_Spain.
The PO file used to generate the MO is like so (only the relevant entry given):
#: C:\wamp\www\new2/www/index.php:76
msgid "In the dashboard"
msgstr "TRANSLATED es_ES DASHBOARD"
This was generated using PoEdit. I have restarted Apache after adding any new .MO file. Also note that I was previously using Zend_Translate with Gettext and it was translating correctly. I wish to rely on the native gettext extension, though, in part because I am attempting to create a lightweight framework of my own.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: Amended directory structure. Note - will be able to try recent answers within 24hrs.
I set this up on my XAMPP instance and figure it out.
Flat out setlocale does not work on Windows, so what it returns is irrelevant.
For Windows you set the locale using the standard language/country codes (in this case es_ES is Spanish as spoken in Spain)
Under your locale directory create es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/. This where your messages.mo file lives.
$locale = 'es_ES';
putenv("LC_ALL={$locale}"); // Returns TRUE
$domain = 'messages';
bindtextdomain($domain, './locale');
bind_textdomain_codeset($domain, 'UTF-8');
textdomain($domain); // Returns'messages'
print gettext("In the dashboard");
exit;
I am not sure if this made a different, but I did two things when creating the po file. In poEdit under File -> Preferences I changed the Line ending format to Windows. And after I created the initial po with poEdit I opened the file in Notepad++ and switched the encoding type to UTF-8 as poEdit did not do this.
I hope this at least points you in the right direction.
References
PHP Localization Tutorial on Windows
Country Codes
Language Codes
Your code mentions this as the return value from bindtextdomain:
C:\wamp\www\new2\www\locale
With the setlocale of Spanish_Spain.1252 and textdomain of messages, calls to gettext will look in this path:
C:\wamp\www\new2\www\locale\Spanish_Spain.1252\LC_MESSAGES\messages.mo
But you created the file structure of:
www/new2/locale/Spanish_Spain.1252/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
^^
www/ missing here
Edit
Okay, so that didn't help. I've created a test script on Windows and using POEdit like you:
$locale = "Dutch_Netherlands.1252";
putenv("LC_ALL=$locale"); // 'true'
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale); // 'Dutch_Netherlands.1252'
bindtextdomain("messages", "./locale"); // 'D:\work\so\l10n\locale'
textdomain("messages"); // 'messages'
echo _("Hello world"); // 'Hallo wereld'
My folder structure is like this:
D:\work\so\l10n\
\locale\Dutch_Netherlands.1252\LC_MESSAGES\messages.mo
\locale\Dutch_Netherlands.1252\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po
\test.php
Hope it helps, although it looks almost identical to yours. A few things I found online:
It's important to set the character set in .po file
Spaces inside the localization file might have a UTF8 alternative, so be wary of key lookups failing. Probably the best thing to test first is keys without spaces at all.
A suggestion: you may need the full locale for the .mo file. This is probably Spanish_Spain.UTF8 or esn_esn.UTF8 or esn_esp.UTF8 (not 1252, as you change the code base).
To track what directory it's looking for, you can install Process monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645). It spews out bucket loads on info, but you should be able to find out which file/directory is being looked for.
(My other thought is to check file permissions - but if you already had something similar in Zend_Translate, then probably not the cause, but worth checking anyway).
Sorry if not good - but might give you a clue.
Look here. It works for me on windows and on linux also. The last values in the array works for windows. List of languages names can be found here. My catalogs are in
./locales/en/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo
/cs/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo
I have never tried using gettext on Windows, but each time I had problems with gettext on linux systems, the reason was that an appropriate language pack was not installed.
Problem can be also that when you change your *.po and *.mo files, you have to restart the Apache Server. This can be problem, so you can use workaround - always rename these files to some new name and they will be reloaded.