Re: gettext w/ PHP

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Bruno,

Am Montag, 16. Oktober 2006 16:19 schrieb Bruno Haible:
> Hello,
>
> > while fiddeling with GNU gettext and its PHP-implementation I found out,
> > that german umlauts (ß) ß gets extracted inrto double s (ss), which
> > is quite anoying using the word Massstab (scale) in german.
> >
> > I have written a small example do demostrate the behaviour. Could you
> > please give me a hint where to search for the problem?
>
> Please take a look at the gettext FAQ
> http://www.haible.de/bruno/gettext-FAQ.html (specifically the topic
>   German umlauts are displayed like “ge"andert” instead of “geändert”)
> and compare this with your localetest.php.

Thanks for your pointers to your FAQ. I found out that I needed to set LC_ALL 
and then gettext does the correct things for my words (e.g. Maßstab).

Best regards

        Stephan

PS: Perhaps you should link to your FAQ from the official GNU gettext page? 
(or maybe I have overlooked it yesterday).

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