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

Add a system variable 'LANG' with the desired locale for the value (for example 'en_US' or 'nl_NL'), restart apache and translations corresponding to that locale are shown.

Environment variables

This works for XAMPP with php 7.1 (thread safe) on windows 10 and locale directories structured as follows:

    // Directory structure
    \en_US\LC_MESSAGES\bundle.po
    \nl_NL\LC_MESSAGES\bundle.po
    ...