Gettext will always use system default locale

Question

I need to localise a Windows-only PHP web application and I\'m evaluating the gettext extension but I\'m having the hardest time trying to make it work in my Windows 7 devel

Answer 1

It's an issue that's been acknowledged and partially fixed by the PHP team.

It's a fairly technical thing, apparently related to the way environment variables (on which gettext heavily depends) are handled by the underlying platform. Also, something has changed in the Visual C Runtime libraries from VC9 to VC11 that affects all this.

To sum up:

• Non thread-safe builds have been fixed in the source tree on 21^st Nov. 2014.
• Thread-safe builds (e.g. Apache module) haven't and there isn't a clear solution in sight.