Ticket #2210: adjust locale setup fallback to try more locales on the system if en_US...

[quix0rs-gnu-social.git] / lib / util.php

diff --git a/lib/util.php b/lib/util.php
index 46be920fa7940aa671155985170cf5552af77c64..76639e2d40298bed935e2e9bc8658132d00576ef 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/util.php
@@ -52,17 +52,43 @@ function common_init_language()
 {
     mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
 
-    // gettext seems very picky... We first need to setlocale()
-    // to a locale which _does_ exist on the system, and _then_
-    // we can set in another locale that may not be set up
-    // (say, ga_ES for Galego/Galician) it seems to take it.
-    common_init_locale("en_US");
-
     // Note that this setlocale() call may "fail" but this is harmless;
     // gettext will still select the right language.
     $language = common_language();
     $locale_set = common_init_locale($language);
 
+    if (!$locale_set) {
+        // The requested locale doesn't exist on the system.
+        //
+        // gettext seems very picky... We first need to setlocale()
+        // to a locale which _does_ exist on the system, and _then_
+        // we can set in another locale that may not be set up
+        // (say, ga_ES for Galego/Galician) it seems to take it.
+        //
+        // For some reason C and POSIX which are guaranteed to work
+        // don't do the job. en_US.UTF-8 should be there most of the
+        // time, but not guaranteed.
+        $ok = common_init_locale("en_US");
+        if (!$ok) {
+            // Try to find a complete, working locale...
+            // @fixme shelling out feels awfully inefficient
+            // but I don't think there's a more standard way.
+            $all = `locale -a`;
+            foreach (explode("\n", $all) as $locale) {
+                if (preg_match('/\.utf[-_]?8$/i', $locale)) {
+                    $ok = setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
+                    if ($ok) {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (!$ok) {
+                common_log(LOG_ERR, "Unable to find a UTF-8 locale on this system; UI translations may not work.");
+            }
+        }
+        $locale_set = common_init_locale($language);
+    }
+
     setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'C');
     // So we do not have to make people install the gettext locales
     $path = common_config('site','locale_path');
@@ -105,11 +131,13 @@ function common_language()
 
     // Otherwise, find the best match for the languages requested by the
     // user's browser...
-    $httplang = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] : null;
-    if (!empty($httplang)) {
-        $language = client_prefered_language($httplang);
-        if ($language)
-          return $language;
+    if (common_config('site', 'langdetect')) {
+        $httplang = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] : null;
+        if (!empty($httplang)) {
+            $language = client_prefered_language($httplang);
+            if ($language)
+              return $language;
+        }
     }
 
     // Finally, if none of the above worked, use the site's default...