LCID values are not automatically transferred from the culture's name to the different places in the MSI database where it may be needed. There are some LCID values defined in .NET that don't work on all platforms (and even a couple places where the LCID in native code and the value used in .NET don't match). Microsoft provides lists of supported LCIDs for its different platforms at its global-dev site.
As a result, it is standard practice to either have the setup author directly provide the LCID or to supply it via your own WXL files (using the "!(loc.LCID)" convention). WiX doesn't define any LCID values in any of its .wxl files and only ships an "en-US" package of WiX itself. Note that workstation platforms sometimes support several LCIDs that server platforms don't, and that because WiX uses Windows Installer (msi.dll) when building MSI and similar files, your choice of LCIDs must be supported both on the platform you are targeting AND on the platform you are building on. Also there are so-called language-neutral LCIDs that are sometimes not supported on either older platforms or at all (LCID values that are less than 0x200 or 512 decimal). I think that a good feature request for WiX 4.0 would be to have reasonable default LCID values be supplied for each culture that a translation is provided for in the toolset. The WiX-supplied WXL files do (at least in the ones I spot-checked) supply code-page values, so that is one less thing you have to supply. Blair -----Original Message----- From: maksim.vazhe...@emc.com [mailto:maksim.vazhe...@emc.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] LCIDs of the supported languages of WixUIExtension Hi All, I'd like to clarify LCIDs of the supported languages of WixUIExtension. Table of LCIDs from MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0h88fahh(v=vs.85).aspx): -------------------------------------------------------------------- Locale description Short string Hexadecimal value Decimal value -------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ... ... ... Chinese - China zh-cn 0x0804 2052 ... ... ... ... Korean ko 0x0412 1042 ... ... ... ... Portuguese - Brazil pt-br 0x0416 1046 ... ... ... ... Spanish - Spain (Modern) es-es 0x0C0A 3082 Spanish - Spain (Traditional) 0x040A 1034 -------------------------------------------------------------------- What are the LCIDs of the supported languages in WixUIExtension? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Language Location Culture code WXL file LCID -------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ... ... ... ... Korean Korea ko-KR WixUI_ko-KR.wxl (1042)? ... ... ... ... ... Portuguese Brazil pt-BR WixUI_pt-BR.wxl (1046)? ... ... ... ... ... Simplified Chinese China zh-CN WixUI_zh-CN.wxl (2052)? ... ... ... ... ... Spanish Spain es-ES WixUI_es-ES.wxl (3082)? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Maksim. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
