Guy Rutenberg » Gettext http://www.guyrutenberg.com Keeping track of what I do Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:53:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Question Marks Instead of Non-ASCII Chars when using Gettext in PHP http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2008/11/24/question-marks-instead-of-non-ascii-chars-when-using-gettext-in-php/ http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2008/11/24/question-marks-instead-of-non-ascii-chars-when-using-gettext-in-php/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:54:02 +0000 Guy http://www.guyrutenberg.com/?p=173 Yesterday I’ve ported a PHP website to use Gettext for localizations (l10n). After reading through the Gettext documentation and going through the documentation in the PHP site, I’ve manged to get everything working (almost). I had one problem, all the non-ASCII characters (accented Latin chars, Japanese and Chinese) where displayed as question marks (?) instead of the correct form. This happend despite me using UTF-8 encoded files.

While some people (e.g. this one) suggested that it’s not possible to use non-ASCII characters when using a UTF-8 encoded message files, their is a soultion and it’s quiet simple one. All you have to do is to call bind_textdomain_codset and pass it UTF-8 as charset.

]]> http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2008/11/24/question-marks-instead-of-non-ascii-chars-when-using-gettext-in-php/feed/ 0 Vim Macros for Wrapping Strings for Gettext http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/12/22/vim-macros-for-wrapping-strings-for-gettext/ http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/12/22/vim-macros-for-wrapping-strings-for-gettext/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:52:20 +0000 Guy http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/12/22/vim-macros-for-wrapping-strings-for-gettext/ I’m working on a website and we decided to localize it using GNU gettext. Soon enough I found it tiring to wrap each string manually in _( and ) and also to do it in Smarty (using {t}string{/t}. So I decided that I need a macro that will let highlight the string that needs translation and the macro will wrap for me.

I ended up writing two macros one for PHP files (but it’s also good for C/C++ etc.) and one for smarty.

:vmap tg di_(<ESC>pa)<ESC>
:vmap ts di{t}<ESC>pa{/t}<ESC>

To use these macros just highlight the string for translation in vim’s visual mode and press tg (or ts), and your string will be wrapped for translation.

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