Try sorting by translitterated names: function compareASCII($a, $b) { $at = iconv(‘UTF-8’, ‘ASCII//TRANSLIT’, $a); $bt = iconv(‘UTF-8’, ‘ASCII//TRANSLIT’, $b); return strcmp($at, $bt); } uasort($lang, ‘compareASCII’); print_r($lang);
The example given by Rob is great, but isn’t threadsafe. Here’s a version that works with threads: import locale import threading from datetime import datetime from contextlib import contextmanager LOCALE_LOCK = threading.Lock() @contextmanager def setlocale(name): with LOCALE_LOCK: saved = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL) try: yield locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, name) finally: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, saved) # Let’s set a non-US locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ‘de_DE.UTF-8’) … Read more
Is is quite likely that the German locale is not installed on the server your running the script on – do you have shell access to the server? Then try locale -a to see which locales are installed. Also have a look here Is it feasible to rely on setlocale, and rely on locales being … Read more