setlocale and strftime not translating month

Question

My code:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ca_ES');
echo strftime("%#d %B", strtotime($ticket->date_created));

outputs something like:

28 August

instead of my expectation:

28 Agost

I expect "Agost" because that is Catalan language (set through setlocale()).

Is this how setlocale and strftime is supposed to work?

FYI: My local development machine is Windows 7, set to locale: en-PH

Answer 1

You need to install the locale you want in your server.

1. SSH into your server
2. Check which locales are installed: locale -a
3. if your locale is not there, install it: sudo locale-gen ca_ES
4. Update the locales in your server: sudo update-locale
5. Restart apache for the changes to take effect: sudo service apache2 restart

That is it!

Answer 2

The locale names are different on Windows. It looks like it's defaulting to English.

Try the full length name (you can try several and it will pick the first found):

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ca_ES', 'Catalan_Spain', 'Catalan');

You may look at this table, which may be helpful : http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Table_of_locales