I am working on a cloud platform and the server is Apache.
In one of the site instances,the php script setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.utf8"); always returns false.
This locale,"en_GB.utf8" can be found available in the platform when I execute locale -a. Also noticed that , setlocale(LC_ALL, 0); returns "C".
Here PHP/Apache seems to be unaware about the underlying platform locales. Can anybody suggest me what could be wrong in case?
before trying for LC_ALL, try LC_TIME.
setlocale(LC_TIME, "");
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.utf8")
See if it helps...
setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL)
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.UTF-8")
... did it for me.
You have to reload the apache config in order for php/setlocale to recognize the new locale.
I had the very same problem (locale was installed and available on the platform) but setlocale did return false until I reloaded the apache config with service apache2 reload.