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copied!<p>For translations in our application, we're using <a href="http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.9/en/zend.translate.html">Zend Translate</a> with the gettext adapter. In each module is a folder <code>translations</code>, containing .mo files for all the languages;</p> <ul> <li>da.mo</li> <li>nl.mo</li> <li>en.mo</li> </ul> <p>Which are scanned and added through the <code>addTranslation()</code> method:</p> <pre><code>if ( is_dir( $translations_dir ) ) { foreach ( new DirectoryIterator( $translations_dir ) as $file ) { if ( substr( $file, -3 ) == '.mo' ) { $ZendTranslate->addTranslation( $file->getPathname(), $file->getBasename('.mo') ); } } } </code></pre> <p>The strings in my application are translated using the <code>_()</code> method, passing the current language as a parameter (it's stored in my framework's Language class):</p> <pre><code>$ZendTranslate->_( $string, $this->language ); </code></pre> <p>Now I need to customize the Dutch (nl) language strings for a specific customer. I don't want to modify the <code>nl.mo</code> file, as that would affect other customers. So I created a file called <code>nl_kpn.mo</code> (kpn is the customer name), and switched the <code>$this->language</code> to 'nl_kpn'. I was hoping Zend Transate would take <code>nl.mo</code> as the base file, overriding the customized strings found in <code>nl_kpn.mo</code>. But unfortunately I experienced, as the <a href="http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.9/en/zend.translate.additional.html">manual states</a>: </p> <blockquote> <p>fr_CH will be downgraded to fr</p> </blockquote> <p>So all the strings were still from the <code>nl.mo</code> file, even though <code>$this->language</code> was set to 'nl_kpn'. So how can I create a more specific version of a language, overriding strings from the general one? It must be possible, right? Because there's also en_UK and en_US, which are different 'dialects' of the same language.</p>

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