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		<title>Troubleshooting gettext for php translation</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/04/18/troubleshooting-gettext-for-php-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to deploy a translated peice of software on a newly installed server running debian, but whatever I did, the strings would not appear in the translated language.
A sample php page might look something like this:
&#60;?php
$locale = "fr_FR";
putenv("LC_ALL=$locale");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
bindtextdomain("messages", "../locale");
textdomain("messages");
echo _("Name");
?&#62;
Eventually I figured out that the setlocale() command was returning false, which means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What country are you in?</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/03/31/what-country-are-you-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a web application that I have been working on recently, it has been necessary to answer the question: what country is lat,lon in?
There are a number of ways of determining this, but as a starting point I decided to find the boundary of each country from osm data as a set of polygons.
After extracting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Sponge / Chocolate Sponge</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/01/01/victoria-sponge-chocolate-sponge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure most grandma&#8217;s bake cakes, but my grandma makes a particularly good sponge cake so I asked her for the recipe. I have no idea if this is the same as is found in other recipe books. Taste and see&#8230;
For 1 Cake
4 oz Marg/Butter
4 oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs, beaten
4 oz S R flour
Vanilla Essence
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onward Christian Centre Service Times</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/12/28/onward-christian-centre-service-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/12/28/onward-christian-centre-service-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it hard to believe that any organisation does not have a website, or at least some basic web presence in our internet-based age. So when I decided I would pay a local church a visit, I wanted to know when their meeting times were. I looked and looked, and whilst I found a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>substr versus direct character reference in php</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/12/13/substr-versus-direct-character-referece-in-php/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In php there are a few ways to get a few characters from the middle of a string. One is to use substr:
string substr ( string $string, int $start [, int $length  ] )
another is by direct character reference:
string $chars = $string[0].$string[1];
When you only require a single character from a string, one would assume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip round Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/10/01/trip-round-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/10/01/trip-round-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have wanted to do some travelling for a long while now, and had earmarked October this year for travelling around Eastern Europe with John. We hadn&#8217;t planned anthing until two days ago when we sat down and figured out some plans. We found that it took around one hour to plan each day&#8217;s trip, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowout and new tyres on my bike</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/05/blowout-and-new-tyres-on-my-bike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tyres that I had on my red hybrid bike were getting a bit thin, and since pushing them to their limits the back tyre was showing the nylon threads. I decided it was time to get some new tyres, but as with most things kept putting it off.
When cycling to my sisters a week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia N95 and Ubuntu &#8211; Mobile Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/02/nokia-n95-and-ubuntu-mobile-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/02/nokia-n95-and-ubuntu-mobile-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I had gotten rid of my T-Mobile contract for my laptop data card, when I needed internet on the move I needed to either rely on the browser and applications on my N95, or connect it to my laptop. Connecting in windows turned out to be harder than I expected, as the Nokia PC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gliding course</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/gliding-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/gliding-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gliding club at the university of Warwick had a couple of spare places on one of their week-long courses, and so me and a couple of friends jumped at the opportunity. I have never flown anything before, and only seen gliders a few times before in my life, so I was a complete novice.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new phone &#8211; a Nokia N95</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/02/16/my-new-phone-a-nokia-n95/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/02/16/my-new-phone-a-nokia-n95/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was that time of the year again when you eagerly await the time when you can ring up the phone company that supplies your contract and ask them what they can offer you as an upgrade. Or perhaps not. I&#8217;m not a big fan of talking to the phone networks as they tend to [...]]]></description>
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