Jim Lucas wrote: > From what I can tell, the op is trying to set the locale /AT/ the cli, > not from within the script. Exactly Jim. A typical Linux installation in France/Germany/Greece/ Russia/whereever will have an appropriate environment (e.g. LC_ALL) set such that unix commands such as "date" and "ls" will display the information as appropriate for French, German, Greek and Russian. > I guess my first debugging question would be: > > Can you successfully set other LC_xyz categories, besides the LC_ALL, > in the same manor that your example shows? I guess it might be worth trying, but I think it's highly unlikely that any of the other settings will be accepted either. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.3°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php