PostCalendar block displays month names in English Only?

PostCalendar 4.0 always displayes the English names of the months and days!? But the correct ones are written down in the translation-files (deu → German).

All translations are handled by the php strftime function in the templates and should translate it for you automatically as long as the _PC_LOCALE setting is set correctly in the global.php language file.
Now we need the correct locale settings which is not really obvious to find. By default _PC_LOCALE is set to “de_DE” for the german language which did not work on my system ( Windos XP, Apache, PHP 4.3.0).
I found a small script that works with PHP 4.3.0 to get the prefered LOCALE for german:

<?
/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
$loc_de = setlocale (LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
?>

On my System it printed: “Preferred locale for german on this system is ‘German_Germany.1252’”

After reading this posts, I tried to make the same with spanish language, but I was unable to make it works because I have no programming knowlegdes, so I tried to write directly this: define(’_PC_LOCALE’,’Spanish_Spain.1252’); and I cannot believe it, but IT WORKS!!!! (I am using Apache, PHP and postnuke under Windows2k).

When I changed de_DE to German_Germany.1252 in {module_path}/pnlang/deu/global.php all my translation problems disappeared.

Somebody else reported that for french language changing fr_FR to fr_FR.iso885915@euro made the job (no plattform comment was given) and on a Windows system “Windows-1851” seems to work for cyrilic.

If you think you have set the right LOCALE and it is still not working there was a suggestion to modify the lang.xxx file in the conf directory of the templates. What changes have to be done were not mentioned, so I can’t jugde the effects and think this was only an idea.

Hope that will solve your prob.

Good luck