Christopher I can partially answer your questions from this side of the pond.....
I am originally from the UK and I am quite surprised anyone would want a specific UK localized installer. I cant remember ever seeing a specific UK version of any software that I've installed as the US version normally does the job quite nicely and is normally sufficient (any language options are usually en/us or just English). Everyone from the UK understands most of US English (and vice versa) though there are some interesting variations on the use of certain words, some of which are quite funny but I doubt you'd see nearly any of them in an installer (What are "Bangs" for example??? I would elaborate but it would be somewhat OT....). Anyway, there are also spelling differences between certain words too. A good example in this case would be the use of the word Initialize (US spelling) as opposed to Initialise (UK spelling). There are other languages besides English spoken in the UK: Welsh is probably the main one that comes to mind. As that is a completely different language, your UI would definitely have to be modified to suit that. I cant comment on the Win 7 codepage as my Win 7 laptop is a US machine with a US keyboard and my UK machine is only XP. However, a British keyboard does have a different layout to a US keyboard. What you call the pound key, we call the hash key. We have a pound sign thats the British equivalent of '$'. Off the top of my head, that normally got by SHIFT+3 so it replaces the hash symbol. Also SHIFT+2 gets you double quotes rather than the '@' symbol. There are a couple of other layout differences but thats all I recall off the top of my head. However, I doubt the keyboard layout itself makes any difference to an installer though. As for whether it's possible, I cant say but unless they have a specific reason for needing it to be British (or welsh for example), in my opinion, it's probably not worth the effort. As to whether it should be done......well, isnt the customer always right....... Chris -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:34 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] UK Localization I have a customer who has asked that I create a UK English localization for an existing installer. I have a very high level / broad question that I'm hoping can be answered by somebody from the other side of the pond. First, let me apologize in advance if I misuse or otherwise unintentional insult anyone by making incorrect references to political subdivisions of the UK. Now is the chance to enlighten me. :-) I guess the first place to start is by asking what are the cultural expectations in the UK with respect to localized installers? I see that neither InstallShield or WiX have built-in support for English languages other then en-US/1033/0x409. Is it common practice for products to be localized or is it very rare? Someone on my twitter feed commented that Win7 installations in the UK still have a codepage of 1033. Is that correct? The simple question is: Is it possible and should it be done? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
