Question

Ok, what’s wrong here?

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'pt_BR');

echo "<p>São Paulo, " . date("d \d\e F \d\e Y", time()) . "</p>";

echo "<p>Preferred locale on this system is '" . setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL) . "'</p>";

echoes:

São Paulo, 24 de April de 2012
Preferred locale on this system is 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252'

Tried also something like:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252', 'bra', 'brazil', 'pt_BR', 'pt_BR.iso-8859-1', 'pt_BR.utf-8', 'portuguese', 'portuguese-brazil', 'ptb');

But nothing makes the ‘aPril’ becomes ‘aBril’.

thx.

PS: Document is UTF.8 (without BOM) formated on IDE.

Answer 1

I had the same issue on a shared hosting and just made my own locale function.

UPDATE:

Well if you have installed the language just use strftime() instead of date()

From PHP documentation:

To format dates in other languages, you should use the setlocale() and strftime()
functions instead of date().

Try this:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
//setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252'); ERROR in nowadays
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'pt_BR.utf-8'); // UTF-8 is the correct!

echo "<p>São Paulo, " . strftime("%d de %B de %Y", time()) . "</p>";

echo "<p>Preferred locale on this system is '" . setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL) . "'</p>";