PHP gettext Simplified Chinese support?

Question

I'm trying to support traditional chinese in one of my PHP projects, but I can't get it to show any chinese characters. Here's my gettext setup:

putenv("LC_ALL=zh_CN.utf8");
setlocale(LC_ALL, "zh_CN.utf8");
bindtextdomain("wpsmessages", dirname(__FILE__) . "/locale");
bind_textdomain_codeset("wpsmessages", 'UTF-8');
textdomain("wpsmessages");

Earlier I created the locale in SSH by typing:

sudo locale-gen zh_CN.utf8

Which then returned:

Generating locales...
zh_CN.UTF-8... done

After typing locale -a I get the follwing in the list (among others):

zh_CN
zh_CN.utf8

But still, it doesn't show any chinese characters. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

A little emberrassing, but the solution was simply renaming the file wpsmessages-zh_CN.mo to wpsmessages.mo following my own file name conventions.

Basically the structure of my PHP project using gettext is like this:

/locale/pt_BR.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/wpsmessages.mo
/locale/zh_CN.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/wpsmessages.mo
...

So using bindtextdomain("wpsmessages", dirname(__FILE__) . "/locale"); gets the correct .mo file for a locale specified by setlocale(), but it couldn't find the file as it's name was wrong.

Hope this helps anyone being as stupid as me. :)