Carbon locale not respected?

Question

In my Laravel 6 app, I have Carbon::now()->locale() returning it as it should be.

As confirmation that the locale is loaded, Carbon::now()->monthName correctly outputs febbraio.

BUT Carbon::now()->format('F') and Carbon::now()->formatLocalized('%B') both return the english version February.

Why does the first function output the correct localized month while the others do not?

Answer 1

Apparently, formatLocalized() is somehow deprecated or not working as intended.

From the Carbon docs:

You also may know formatLocalized() method from Carbon 1. This method still works > the same in Carbon 2 but you should better use isoFormat() instead.

Carbon::now()->isoFormat('MMMM') is working as intended and correctly returns febbraio.