php setlocale arabic strftime

Question

I've run locale -a on my server and can see that it's got Arabic locale settings installed: - ar_AE - ar_AE.iso88596 - ar_AE.utf8 However, if I set the locale via: ``` $locale = array('ar_AE', 'ar_AE.iso88596', 'ar_AE.utf8', 'ar'); setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale); ``` and output it: ``` strftime('%A %d %B', $current_date) ``` The displayed date is in English, not Arabic. Arabic is the only language this isn't working for: the site I'm working on is in 15 languages and all the others display a translated date. What's going wrong?

Accepted Answer

This worked for me with no problems at all.

```
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ar_AE.utf8');
```

If this does not work, then there is another code in your PHP file that interferes with the language.

php setlocale arabic strftime

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