Unicode setlocale and strftime fails at windows

Question

I have one page and it's encoding is UTF-8 and If i try to run that code in unix system everythings looks fine but when i try to run in windows(7) some chracters looks question mark(�). How can run the code fine both of two system(without using iconv).

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'turkish');
echo strftime("%d %B %Y, %H:%M");

Answer 1

For those who is having similar problems on linux (this may work also for windows but not sure).

Yes there is 'turkish' but there is also 'tr_TR.utf8' . If you use 'tr_TR.utf8' most probably your problems will be washed away. Same thing applies also to 'greek'. Instead use 'el_GR.utf8'

On linux you can check the locale list to find the proper settings for your site.

locale -a

List is too long and you can't see all languages, so either you can just dump it into a file and then open the file to check.

locale -a > locale.txt
vi locale.txt

or do locale -a | grep languagecode for a specific language

locale -a | grep tr

Answer 2

Microsoft Windows does not support UTF-8 locales. So if you provide turkish locale, it would pic an 8-bit code page that allows representation of specific language.

For example for locale Hebrew it would pic codepage-1255, for Turkish it would probably be 1254.

So, you can't use this under MS-Windows platform.

How can run the code fine both of two system(without using iconv).

Probably use non-utf8 encoding under MS Windows.