There is a good article about this here:
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/embeddedlang/index.htm
Although it is unsupported it seem to work well.
Neil
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of others who's names I'm
not yet familiar with yet.
Appologies for the misunderstanding and many thanks for the great work,
commitment, and effort.
-john
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Yes the hypocrisy of which is not lost on us as Microsoft uses this
exceptionally handy feature itself (in the windows inst
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Yes the hypocrisy of which is not lost on us as Microsoft uses this
exceptionally handy feature itself (in the windows installer installer
instmsi.exe
Yes the hypocrisy of which is not lost on us as Microsoft uses this
exceptionally handy feature itself (in the windows installer installer
instmsi.exe no less) while discouraging it and leaving it undocumented...
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Right, using the transforms in that way is not discouraged (that's their
localization story from what I know); it's just that the data coming from
the transform is then unpatchable because the transforms are always applied
last.
Derek
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Title: RE: [WiX-users] Multi-language msi
Ah ok. I’m not certain, but I
believe I’ve heard two things about that method:
It’s
not officially supported by the MSI team (they discourage people from
using it). I’m not sure why though.
I
believe you cannot create a patch
Title: RE: [WiX-users] Multi-language msi
To make multi-language msi's right now you:
1)Make a normal msi in your primary lanuage (english in my case)
2)Make normal msi's in the other languages.
3)Run MsiTran once each on your primary language and each of your secondary ones.
Thi
> I am still wondering why MSI does not support unicode database in
> the current version, if even MSI 3.0 or later does not support
> non-unicode based operating systems - Windows 9x.
File format changes are never cheap... especially, when you have over 7
years of files that you have to maintai
MSI does not support unicode database and requires single ANSI code page for a
database.
As Western European languages shares a single code page 1252, it is possible to
make a single MSI for multiple languages. But CJK or other languages use their
own code page. E.g. Japanese 932, Korean 949, Si
Title: Multi-language msi
What is the MsiTran SummaryInfo mechanism?
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Multi-language msi
Hi,
We are c
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