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setlocale

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setlocaleEstablece la información de configuración local

Descripción

setlocale(int $category, ?string $locales, string ...$rest): string|false

Firma alternativa (no soportada con argumentos nombrados):

setlocale(int $category, array $locale_array): string|false

Establece la información de configuración local.

Advertencia

La información de configuración local se mantiene por proceso, no por hilo. Si está ejecutando PHP en una API de servidor multihilo, puede experimentar cambios repentinos en la configuración local mientras se ejecuta un script, aunque el script nunca haya llamado a setlocale(). Esto ocurre debido a otros scripts que se ejecutan en diferentes hilos del mismo proceso al mismo tiempo, cambiando la configuración local del proceso usando setlocale(). En Windows, la información de configuración local se mantiene por hilo a partir de PHP 7.0.5.

Parámetros

category

category es una constante nombrada que especifica la categoría de las funciones afectadas por la configuración local:

locales

Si locales es la cadena vacía "" o es null, los nombres de configuración local se establecerán a partir de los valores de las variables de entorno con los mismos nombres que las categorías anteriores, o de "LANG".

Si locales es "0", la configuración local no se ve afectada, solo se devuelve la configuración actual.

Si locales va seguido de parámetros adicionales, entonces cada parámetro se intenta establecer como nueva configuración local hasta que tenga éxito. Esto es útil si una configuración local es conocida bajo diferentes nombres en diferentes sistemas o para proporcionar una alternativa para una configuración local posiblemente no disponible.

rest

Parámetros opcionales de string para intentar como configuraciones locales hasta que tenga éxito.

locale_array

Cada elemento del array se intenta establecer como nueva configuración local hasta que tenga éxito. Esto es útil si una configuración local es conocida bajo diferentes nombres en diferentes sistemas o para proporcionar una alternativa para una configuración local posiblemente no disponible.

Nota:

En Windows, setlocale(LC_ALL, '') establece los nombres de configuración local a partir de la configuración regional/idioma del sistema (accesible a través del Panel de Control).

Valores devueltos

Devuelve la nueva configuración local actual, o false si la funcionalidad de configuración local no está implementada en su plataforma, la configuración local especificada no existe o el nombre de la categoría no es válido.

Un nombre de categoría no válido también causa un mensaje de advertencia. Los nombres de categoría/configuración local se pueden encontrar en » RFC 1766 y » ISO 639. Diferentes sistemas tienen diferentes esquemas de nombres para configuraciones locales.

Nota:

El valor de retorno de setlocale() depende del sistema en el que se está ejecutando PHP. Devuelve exactamente lo que devuelve la función setlocale del sistema.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplos de setlocale()

<?php
/* Establecer configuración local a holandés */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');

/* Salida: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));

/* probar diferentes nombres posibles de configuración local para alemán */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo
"Configuración local preferida para alemán en este sistema es '$loc_de'";
?>

Ejemplo #2 Recuperar la configuración actual de setlocale()

<?php
/* Recuperar la configuración actual */
$current = setlocale(LC_ALL, null);

echo
"Configuración local actual '$current'";
?>

Ejemplo #3 Ejemplos de setlocale() para Windows

<?php
/* Establecer configuración local a holandés */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nld_nld');

/* Salida: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));

/* probar diferentes nombres posibles de configuración local para alemán */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'deu_deu');
echo
"Configuración local preferida para alemán en este sistema es '$loc_de'";
?>

Notas

Sugerencia

Los usuarios de Windows encontrarán información útil sobre las cadenas locales en el sitio web de MSDN de Microsoft. Las cadenas de idioma soportadas se pueden encontrar en la » documentación de cadenas de idioma y las cadenas de país/región soportadas en la » documentación de cadenas de país/región.

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User Contributed Notes 34 notes

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r dot nospam dot velseboer at quicknet dot nospam dot nl
23 years ago
be careful with the LC_ALL setting, as it may introduce some unwanted conversions. For example, I used setlocale (LC_ALL, "Dutch");to get my weekdays in dutch on the page. From that moment on (as I found out many hours later) my floating point values from MYSQL where interpreted as integers because the Dutch locale wants a comma (,) instead of a point (.) before the decimals. I tried printf, number_format, floatval.... all to no avail. 1.50 was always printed as 1.00 :(When I set my locale to : setlocale (LC_TIME, "Dutch");my weekdays are good now and my floating point values too. I hope I can save some people the trouble of figuring this out by themselves.Rob
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russ at eatmymonkeydust dot com
13 years ago
If you are looking for a getlocale() function simply pass 0 (zero) as the second parameter to setlocale().Beware though if you use the category LC_ALL and some of the locales differ as a string containing all the locales is returned:<?phpecho setlocale(LC_ALL, 0);// LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;// LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=Cecho setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 0);// en_US.UTF-8setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");echo setlocale(LC_ALL, 0);// en_US.UTF-8?>If you are looking to store and reset the locales you could do something like this:<?php$originalLocales = explode(";", setlocale(LC_ALL, 0));setlocale(LC_ALL, "nb_NO.utf8");// Do somethingforeach ($originalLocales as $localeSetting) {  if (strpos($localeSetting, "=") !== false) {    list ($category, $locale) = explode("=", $localeSetting);  }  else {    $category = LC_ALL;    $locale   = $localeSetting;  }  setlocale($category, $locale); }?>The above works here (Ubuntu Linux) but as the setlocale() function is just wrapping the equivalent system calls, your mileage may vary on the result.
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epistomai at gmail dot com
6 years ago
setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_US') doesn't work anymore (at least in PHP Version 7.3.8).I've used 'en_US.UTF-8' instead
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Kari Sderholm aka Haprog
16 years ago
It took me a while to figure out how to get a Finnish locale correctly set on Ubuntu Server with Apache2 and PHP5.At first the output for "locale -a" was this:Cen_US.utf8POSIXI had to install a finnish language pack with"sudo apt-get install language-pack-fi-base"Now the output for "locale -a" is:Cen_US.utf8fi_FI.utf8POSIXThe last thing you need to do after installing the correct language pack is restart Apache with "sudo apache2ctl restart". The locale "fi_FI.utf8" can then be used in PHP5 after restarting Apache.For setting Finnish timezone and locale in PHP use:<?phpdate_default_timezone_set('Europe/Helsinki');setlocale(LC_ALL, array('fi_FI.UTF-8','fi_FI@euro','fi_FI','finnish'));?>
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Shashakhmetov Talgat
10 years ago
//Fix encoding for russian locale on windows$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ru_RU.CP1251', 'rus_RUS.CP1251', 'Russian_Russia.1251');function strftime_fix($format, $locale, $timestamp = time()){    // Fix %e for windows    if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) == 'WIN') {        $format = preg_replace('#(?<!%)((?:%%)*)%e#', '\1%#d', $format);    }    // convert    $date_str = strftime($format, $timestamp);    if (stripos($locale, "1251") !== false) {      return iconv("windows-1251","utf-8", $date_str);    } elseif (stripos($locale, "1252") !== false) {      return iconv("windows-1252","utf-8", $date_str);    } else {      return $date_str;    }}
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lingureanumanuel at yahoo dot com
3 years ago
for windowssetlocale(LC_ALL, 'Greenlandic_Greenland.1252');will return falseto make it work usesetlocale(LC_ALL, 'Kalaallisut_Greenland.1252');
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brice/axice/be
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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pigmeu at pigmeu dot net
20 years ago
!!WARNING!!The "locale" always depend on the server configuration.i.e.:When trying to use "pt_BR" on some servers you will ALWAYS get false. Even with other languages.The locale string need to be supported by the server. Sometimes there are diferents charsets for a language, like "pt_BR.utf-8" and "pt_BR.iso-8859-1", but there is no support for a _standard_ "pt_BR".This problem occours in Windows platform too. Here you need to call "portuguese" or "spanish" or "german" or...Maybe the only way to try to get success calling the function setlocale() is:setlocale(LC_ALL, "pt_BR", "pt_BR.iso-8859-1", "pt_BR.utf-8", "portuguese", ...);But NEVER trust on that when making functions like date conversions or number formating. The best way to make sure you are doing the right thing, is using the default "en_US" or "en_UK", by not calling the setlocale() function. Or, make sure that your server support the lang you want to use, with some tests.Remember that: Using the default locale setings is the best way to "talk" with other applications, like dbs or rpc servers, too.[]sPigmeu
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stepdate at gmail dot com
7 years ago
If you have Locales installed and things won't work check the spelling: for German all the comments suggested "setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_DE.utf8")", but it has to be "setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_DE.UTF-8")"-> UTF-8 instead of utf8.
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jose dot nobile at gmail dot com
10 years ago
For Windows users complaining about setlocale. The locale argument to the setlocale function takes the following form:setlocale( LC_ALL, "<language>_<country>.<code_page>" );in short, if you  want use for example: es_CO.UTF-8 it must be in Windows: Spanish_Colombia.1252The code page 1252 is ISO-8859-1 (windows-1252    ANSI Latin 1; Western European (Windows)Windows use different languages code from Unix, for example, es_CO becomes es-CO or Spanish_Colombia, also it doesn't support UTF-8 charset as is shown in their website: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d(v=vs.140).aspx"The set of available locale names, languages, country/region codes, and code pages includes all those supported by the Windows NLS API except code pages that require more than two bytes per character, such as UTF-7 and UTF-8. If you provide a code page value of UTF-7 or UTF-8, setlocale will fail, returning NULL."Please check the updated website of language and code pages:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf(v=vs.140).aspxandhttps://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us//goglobal/bb895996Here a copy paste in case the link is removed:AfrikaansAlbanianArabic_Saudi_ArabiaArabic_IraqArabic_EgyptArabic_LibyaArabic_AlgeriaArabic_MoroccoArabic_TunisiaArabic_OmanArabic_YemenArabic_SyriaArabic_JordanArabic_LebanonArabic_KuwaitArabic_UAEArabic_BahrainArabic_QatarArmenianAzeri_LatinAzeri_CyrillicBasqueBelarusianBengali_IndiaBosnian_LatinBulgarianCatalanChinese_TaiwanChinese_PRCChinese_Hong_KongChinese_SingaporeChinese_MacauCroatianCroatian_Bosnia_HerzegovinaCzechDanishDivehiDutch_StandardDutch_BelgianEnglish_United_StatesEnglish_United_KingdomEnglish_AustralianEnglish_CanadianEnglish_New_ZealandEnglish_IrelandEnglish_South_AfricaEnglish_JamaicaEnglish_CaribbeanEnglish_BelizeEnglish_TrinidadEnglish_ZimbabweEnglish_PhilippinesEstonianFaeroeseFarsiFinnishFrench_StandardFrench_BelgianFrench_CanadianFrench_SwissFrench_LuxembourgFrench_MonacoGeorgianGalicianGerman_StandardGerman_SwissGerman_AustrianGerman_LuxembourgGerman_LiechtensteinGreekGujaratiHebrewHindiHungarianIcelandicIndonesianItalian_StandardItalian_SwissJapaneseKannadaKazakhKonkaniKoreanKyrgyzLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMalay_MalaysiaMalay_Brunei_DarussalamMalayalamMalteseMaoriMarathiMongolianNorwegian_BokmalNorwegian_NynorskPolishPortuguese_BrazilianPortuguese_StandardPunjabiQuechua_BoliviaQuechua_EcuadorQuechua_PeruRomanianRussianSami_InariSami_Lule_NorwaySami_Lule_SwedenSami_Northern_FinlandSami_Northern_NorwaySami_Northern_SwedenSami_SkoltSami_Southern_NorwaySami_Southern_SwedenSanskritSerbian_LatinSerbian_Latin_Bosnia_HerzegovinaSerbian_CyrillicSerbian_Cyrillic_Bosnia_HerzegovinaSlovakSlovenianSpanish_Traditional_SortSpanish_MexicanSpanish_Modern_SortSpanish_GuatemalaSpanish_Costa_RicaSpanish_PanamaSpanish_Dominican_RepublicSpanish_VenezuelaSpanish_ColombiaSpanish_PeruSpanish_ArgentinaSpanish_EcuadorSpanish_ChileSpanish_UruguaySpanish_ParaguaySpanish_BoliviaSpanish_El_SalvadorSpanish_HondurasSpanish_NicaraguaSpanish_Puerto_RicoSwahiliSwedishSwedish_FinlandSyriacTamilTatarTeluguThaiTswanaUkrainianTurkishUkrainianUrduUzbek_LatinUzbek_CyrillicVietnameseWelshXhosaZuluThe code pages identifiers:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317756(v=vs.85).aspx
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phcorp
14 years ago
To find the locale of a Unix system:<?php system('locale -a') ?>
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tomas dot hampl at gmail dot com
14 years ago
On Linux, setlocale() depends on the installed locales. To see which locales are available to PHP, run this from the terminal:"locale -a"Provided list are all locales that are available on your server for PHP to use. To add a new one, runlocale-gen <locale name> (this may need sudo / root permissions), for example to add a Czech locale, run something like this:"sudo locale-gen cs_CZ.utf8"Then you can use this locale declaration:setlocale(LC_ALL, 'cs_CZ.utf8');
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birkholz at web dot de
20 years ago
When i tried to get the current locale (e.g. after i set the lang to german with setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); ), the following did not work on my suse linux 9.0-box:$currentLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);This code did a reset to the server-setting.$currentLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 0); works perfectly for me, but the manual says NULL and 0 are equal in this case, but NULL seems to act like "".
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Anonymous
19 years ago
The example from bruno dot cenou at revues dot org below shows the possibility, but I want to spell it out: you can add charset info to setlocale.Example:Into my utf-8-encoded page I want to insert the name of the current month, which happens to be March, in German "März" - with umlaut. If you use   setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE');   echo strftime("%B");this will return "M&auml;rz", but that html-entity will look like this on a utf-8 page: "M?rz". Not what I want.But if you use   setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF8');  // note the charset info !   echo strftime("%B");this returns "M√§rz", which, on utf-8, looks like it should: "März".
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bryn AT lunarvis DOT com
17 years ago
Posting this in the hope it might be useful to others, as I could find very little info anywhere. If you want to use a Welsh locale and have the suitable language support installed, you pass 'cym' (abbreviated form of Cymraeg) to setlocale:<?phpsetlocale(LC_TIME, 'cym');$welsh= gmstrftime("%A, %B %Y - %H:%M",time());echo $welsh;?>The above certainly applies to Windows systems, but should also apply to Unix if the required support is installed.Cheers,Bryn.
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data dot ocean dot italia at gmail dot com
12 years ago
Instead, using php with IIS, I had to use this line for Italian language...<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Italian_Italy.1250'); ?>
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RobQuist
11 years ago
In addition to russ, about getting / backing up the locale:I'm using this in unit-tests. I wanted to test something based on locale, and reset the locale after the tests were done.Yet there were some errors;* setlocale doesn't like strings anymore. You need to use constants.* Some contants don't exist anymore. Here's an updated piece of code:<?php$originalLocales = explode(";", setlocale(LC_ALL, 0));setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL.UTF-8');//Do something here//Recover to the default setting        $skipConstants = array( //these will be returned by setlocale(LC_ALL, 0), but don't exist anymore.            'LC_PAPER',            'LC_NAME',            'LC_ADDRESS',            'LC_TELEPHONE',            'LC_MEASUREMENT',            'LC_IDENTIFICATION'        );        foreach ($originalLocales as $localeSetting) {            if (strpos($localeSetting, "=") !== false) {                list ($category, $locale) = explode("=", $localeSetting);            } else {                $category = LC_ALL;                $locale   = $localeSetting;            }            if (!in_array($category, $skipConstants)) {                setlocale(constant($category), $locale); //Using strings is deprecated.            }        }?>
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Periklis
18 years ago
In *some* Windows systems, setting LC_TIME only will not work, you must either set LC_ALL or both LC_CTYPE and LC_TIME. BUT if you have already set LC_TIME using setlocale earlier in the script, dates will not be affected! For example:<?phpsetlocale(LC_TIME, 'greek');setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'greek');?>will not work, while <?phpsetlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'greek');setlocale(LC_TIME, 'greek');?>will do the job.
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Leigh Morresi
17 years ago
Setting locale that is not supported by your system will result in some string operations returning a question mark "?" in your strings where it needs to perform transliteration.1) Always check the return of setlocale() to ensure it has set to something supported2) on Linux you can use the "locale -a" command to find a list of supported locales
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aaaaa976 at gmail dot com
10 years ago
In Windows some times setlocale don't work, it return a empty array, buts the locale is set. I found that apache start before windows "load" locales, you must restart apache to solve this.
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michal dot kocarek at brainbox dot cz
17 years ago
Note about using UTF-8 locale charset on Windows systems:

According to MSDN, Windows setlocale()'s implementation does not support UTF-8 encoding.

Citation from "MSDN setlocale, _wsetlocale" page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx):
The set of available languages, country/region codes, and code pages includes all those supported by the Win32 NLS API except code pages that require more than two bytes per character, such as UTF-7 and UTF-8. If you provide a code page like UTF-7 or UTF-8, setlocale will fail, returning NULL.

So basically, code like
<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Czech_Czech Republic.65001'); // 65001 is UTF-8 codepage ?>
does not work on Windows at all.

(written in time of PHP 5.2.4)
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mk at totu dot com
21 years ago
Be carefull - setting a locale which uses commas instead of dots in numbers may cause a mysql db not to understand the query:
<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL,"pl");
$price = 1234 / 100; // now the price looks like 12,34
$query = mysql_query("SELECT Id FROM table WHERE price='".$price."'");
?>
Even if there is a price 12.34 - nothing will be found
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garygendron at yahoo dot com
15 years ago
For a php Mysql query, you could also use, for french canadian, in this example :$query = 'SET lc_time_names = "fr_CA"';$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed");$query = 'SELECT @@lc_time_names';$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed");$query = 'SELECT id, created, YEAR(created) as year, MONTH(created) as month,' .' CONCAT_WS(" ", MONTHNAME(created), YEAR(created)) as archive' .            ' FROM #__TABLE as e' .' GROUP BY archive' .' ORDER BY id DESC'; Your data will be displayed in any locale setting you want. You may even $_GET[lc_time_name] from your multilanguage website.
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internationalist
9 years ago
My script runs a loop that changes the locale (multilingual application). I've noticed that on some random occasion the locale still hasn't changed despite the setlocale() function being executed a step earlier. I had to add wait time for this condition. Interestingly enough, this was the case only with the 'nl_NL.UTF8' locale.<?php//some code$this->counter = 0;// some code$this->locale = 'nl_NL.UTF8';setlocale(LC_ALL, $this->locale);    $this->counter++;    if ($this->locale !== setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 0)) { // Locale not changed yet.      if ($this->counter > 10) {        return;      }      sleep(1);    }// some code?>
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leif at neland dot dk
15 years ago
Regarding dash'es in locale, it appears they should be omitted entirely.In /etc/locale.gen I haveda_DK.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15but locale -a gives da_DK.iso885915which is the format setlocale()  wants.(Debian)
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Un_passant
16 years ago
For debian/ubuntu, don't forget the charset UFT8. // Works on Ubuntu 8.04 Serversetlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR.UTF8', 'fr.UTF8', 'fr_FR.UTF-8', 'fr.UTF-8');
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Sven K
19 years ago
If your system doesn't show any installed locales by "locale -a", try installing them by "dpkg-reconfigure locales" (on debian).
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ostapk
17 years ago
There is a new PECL extension under development called intl (it will be available in PHP5.3). Meanwhile all who rely on the setlocale() and friends should be aware about the limitations of them as covered in this post on the onPHP5.com blog: http://www.onphp5.com/article/22
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info AT hipot-studio DOT com
1 year ago
In PHP 8.2 and later, PHP's internal case conversion functions are made locale-independent, which affects the following functions:    strtolower    strtoupper    lcfirst    ucfirst    ucwords    stristr    stripos    strripos    str_ireplaceAll of the functions above only perform case conversion and comparisons in the ASCII character range.
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szepeshazi at gmail dot com
18 years ago
For those of you who are unfortunate enough (like me) to work in Windows environment, and try to set the locale to a language _and_ to UTF-8 charset, and were unable to do it, here is a workaround.For example to output the date in hungarian with UTF-8 charset, this will work:    $dateString = "%B %d., %A";    setlocale(LC_ALL,'hungarian');    $res=strftime($dateString);    echo(iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $res));If anybody knows how to set the locale on Windows to the equivalent of "hu_HU.UTF-8" on unix, please do tell me.
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tim dot peters at live dot com
6 years ago
Maybe obvious, but I would expect that setlocale constantes (LC_*) would be bitwise, but they're not.In example, doing this:<?php    setlocale(LC_TIME + LC_COLLATE, 'nl');    echo setlocale(LC_ALL, 0);?>would cause the following result:LC_CTYPE=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=nl;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=CNote that LC_MESSAGES has changed, instead of LC_TIME and LC_COLLATE. (Because LC_TIME + LC_COLLATE = LC_MESSAGES).Instead you would need to specify them individually, if you don't wish to use LC_ALL:<?php    setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl');    setlocale(LC_COLLATE, 'nl');    echo setlocale(LC_ALL, 0);?> LC_CTYPE=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=nl;LC_COLLATE=nl;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
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mvanbaak
18 years ago
To complement Sven K's tip about debian:You can also install the package locales-allThat one holds all the locales there are in compiled form.
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flavioacvalverde at gmail dot com
14 years ago
For Portugal I had to use

<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Portuguese_Portugal.1252'); ?>

using php with IIS on Windows server.
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divinity76 at gmail dot com
3 years ago
if someone is looking for a getlocale(), <?phpif(!function_exists("getlocale")){    function getlocale(int $category)/*:string|false*/{        return setlocale($category, 0);    }}?>
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