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Manos Dilaverakis
Manos Dilaverakis

Reputation: 5869

setlocale/strftime issue

I am using the following to output the full name of a month in Greek.

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR');
strftime("%B");

This works, except the output string is ISO-8859-7 (greek code page), which is a problem since I need a UTF-8 string. I could put this through iconv to convert it, but I was wondering if there was a way to do that without resorting to an extra function.

Could you somehow tell strftime to output a UTF-8 string in this case?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 2597

Answers (2)

adoupas
adoupas

Reputation: 11

Just a sidenote to ZZ Coder's answer:

if setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR.UTF-8');

does not work in linux, check your enabled locales by running locale -a from the shell.

If you don't see el_GR.UTF-8 there, open /etc/locale.gen and uncomment the corresponding line.

Then run locale-gen and you should be ok.

Upvotes: 1

ZZ Coder
ZZ Coder

Reputation: 75496

Try this,

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR.UTF-8');

Upvotes: 13

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