Php – How to enable locale en_EN on centOS to get i18n gettext working

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I have a development version of my PHP website and when I moved it to my production server on centOS OS I discovered my locale version of en_EN is not working.

Could you please tell me what can cause that and what to do to get this working? I use setlocale and gettext to use i18n in PHP.

Best Answer

I wouldn't recommend anyone using setlocale() and gettext() for localization in PHP (there are some serious issues that will drive any developer nuts). But anyway, there is no en_EN locale. The identifier before the underscore is the language (en = English), the identifier after the underscore is the country (EN = ???). You probably should be using en_US, en_GB, or something else.

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