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EMG
EMG

Reputation: 101

troubles with PHP setlocale and iso-8859-1 encoding

I have created a website using iso-8859-1 encoding, and I want to display the date in French.

Here is the file I use for test :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="fr">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8859-1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88591"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>
    </body>
 </html>

When I open this file I get : Thursday 08 August 2013. instead of Jeudi 08 Août 2013. (french).

I have tried using UTF-8 and it works correctly but it is not what I want...

I have checked the language packages installed on my server and everything seems correct :

server$ sudo locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
français
french
fr_FR
fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX

If you have any ideas to solve this problem it would be very cool.

EDIT : typos corrected !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3184

Answers (3)

Jonast92
Jonast92

Reputation: 4967

Like I pointed out in my comment, it should be setlocale, not setlocal.

A quick Google search pointed me to this website which indicates that you should be doing

setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.ISO-8859-1");

instead of

setlocal(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88951");

EDIT :

Try this:

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88591");
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'C');
echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y.");
?>

I haven't tried it but it's worth a shot.

Upvotes: 0

Remko
Remko

Reputation: 958

Typo in your code (setlocal should be setlocale):

<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>

Also make sure the French locale is available on your system: 

locale -a

To see what locales are available (unix).

Upvotes: -1

mlkammer
mlkammer

Reputation: 200

You had typos. Change the "setlocal" and "8895-1"

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="fr">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8895-1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <?php setlocal(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88951"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>
    </body>
 </html>

to "setlocale" and "8859-1", respectively.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="fr">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8859-1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR.iso88591"); echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y."); ?>
    </body>
 </html>

Upvotes: 2

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