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#1 2008-01-30 02:42:15

playpiggy

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From: Changchun, China

Registered: 2004-11-23

Posts: 55

Textpattern can't recognize the right locale

I ran a Chinese blog on a Joyent’s Shared Accelerators Server, and had the admin to install the necessary locales. The Textpattern language was set to Simplified Chinese, but the locale displayed in the diag tab wasn’t zh_CN.UTF-8, so that the date was not be showed correctly. The admin could’t figure out what the problem was, and said maybe it was a Solaris bug. Any suggestions?

Here are the Chinese-related locales on the server.

[root@harrison ~]# locale -a|grep zh
zh
zh.GBK
zh.UTF-8
zh_CN.EUC
zh_CN.GBK
zh_CN.UTF-8
zh_HK.BIG5HK
zh_HK.UTF-8

Last edited by playpiggy (2008-01-30 02:44:24)

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#2 2008-01-30 20:44:18

Mary

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Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: Textpattern can't recognize the right locale

Create a new PHP file with the following contents, run it and see what output you get:

<?php

	var_dump(setlocale(LC_TIME, array('zh_CN.UTF-8', 'zh_CN')));

?>

My guess is that you’ll get back bool(false), which means: “…the locale functionality is not implemented on your platform, the specified locale does not exist…” or a misconfiguration or bug in your server OS (Solaris, in this case).

#3 2008-01-31 03:41:59

playpiggy

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From: Changchun, China

Registered: 2004-11-23

Posts: 55

Re: Textpattern can't recognize the right locale

Thank you Mary. I tried the code, and your guess was right. Is there a way to get details of the problem?

I think the locales are available on the server. Does PHP needs configured to work with the new-added locales?

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#4 2008-02-04 05:12:13

Mary

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Re: Textpattern can't recognize the right locale

Does PHP needs configured to work with the new-added locales?

No, but the server does have to be rebooted, I think.

I think the locales are available on the server.

Are you able to run commandline? If so, running this:

locale -a

should output a list of all the locales available.