1 Topic by apmuthu (edited by apmuthu 09/25/2014 08:07:06 pm)

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Topic: LC_ALL locale issue fills up tmp/errors.log file

By default a Debian System has the locale as "C" and the output of locale bash command is:

# locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

This means that when testing for LC_ALL we will always get it as false in the includes/lang/gettext.php:

    function set_language($lang_code, $encoding)
    {
        putenv("LANG=$lang_code");
        putenv("LC_ALL=$lang_code");
        putenv("LANGUAGE=$lang_code");

        //$set = setlocale(LC_ALL, "$lang_code");
        //$set = setlocale(LC_ALL, "$encoding");

        // cover a couple of country/encoding variants 
        $up = strtoupper($encoding);
        $low = strtolower($encoding);
        $lshort = strtr($up, '-','');
        $ushort = strtr($low, '-','');

        if ($lang_code == 'C')
            $set = setlocale(LC_ALL,'C');
        else
            $set = setlocale(LC_ALL, $lang_code.".".$encoding, 
                $lang_code.".".$up, $lang_code.".".$low,
                $lang_code.".".$ushort,    $lang_code.".".$lshort);

        setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'C'); // important for numeric presentation etc.
        if ($set === false) 
        {
            if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') // don't do this test if server is WIN
                return 0;
            $str = sprintf('language code "%s", encoding "%s" not supported by your system',
                $lang_code, $encoding);
            //$err = new GetText_Error($str);
            //return PEAR::raise_error($err);
            return raise_error("1 " . $str);
        }
        //return 0;
    }

This raises the error in tmp/errors.log each time the FA scripts are executed:

[26-Sep-2014 00:44:58] 1 language code "en_US", encoding "iso-8859-1" not supported by your system

Commands tried to no avail:
  locale
  locale-gen
  locale-gen en_US
  dpkg-reconfigure locales

Contents of installed_languages.inc:

$installed_languages = array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'code' => 'C',
    'name' => 'English',
    'encoding' => 'iso-8859-1',
  ),
  1 => 
  array (
    'code' => 'en_US',
    'name' => 'English US',
    'encoding' => 'iso-8859-1',
    'path' => 'lang/en_US',
  ),
);

$dflt_lang = 'C';

lang/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/en_US.mo exists.

Possible solution link:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Setting-the-Locale.html

where it is suggested to make it:

        if ($lang_code == 'C')
            $set = setlocale(LC_ALL,'');
        else
..
..

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Re: LC_ALL locale issue fills up tmp/errors.log file

A reboot of the Debian machine now shows:

# locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

And all works well!

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