I'm working (as usual) on our front end, InstallerBuilder. We are in a multilingual environment, and one which often involves several languages being used semi-simultaneously. The convention for one of our applications (recently upgraded and now to be installed using MSI, etc.) is to have a shortcut named so that the string contains a capital E with a circumflex accent on it regardless of the actual locale of the user (so the shortcut name is named in both English and French everywhere). This character is available in the default code page, 1252, as are all of the characters we need. However, when a WXS file is linked with light that contains one of these characters (accidentally typed as a E with a diaresis/umlaut in our testing, but this exists in 1252 as well) we get:
error LGHT0311 : A string was provided with characters that are not available in the specified database code page '1252'. Either change these characters to ones that exist in the database's code page, or update the database's code page by modifying one of the following attributes: Product/@Codepage, Module/@Codepage, Patch/@Codepage, PatchCreation/@Codepage, or WixLocalization/@Codepage. I assume this has something to do with the fact that the character is being represented in UTF-8 encoding in the WXS file, and then this is translating wrongly somehow into Windows Installer's older encoding or the like. Is this a bug? Should we somehow represent this character differently? Change the encoding of the WXS file? Thanks, Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
