Re: [WiX-users] Unicode. Unicode?

2007-12-21 Thread Tony Hoyle
Rob Mensching wrote: > One thing I remember the MSI team mentioning was that certain system > dialogs the Windows Installer puts up will show up with boxes because > the Windows Installer does not understand the UTF-8 codepage. Basic UI > maybe... I forget the specific dialogs (if they even sai

Re: [WiX-users] Unicode. Unicode?

2007-12-21 Thread Rob Mensching
One thing I remember the MSI team mentioning was that certain system dialogs the Windows Installer puts up will show up with boxes because the Windows Installer does not understand the UTF-8 codepage. Basic UI maybe... I forget the specific dialogs (if they even said)? Tony Hoyle wrote: > DEXK

Re: [WiX-users] Unicode. Unicode?

2007-12-14 Thread Tony Hoyle
DEXK JAHN, GXbor wrote: > With 65001, I could successfully create an installer that does > display Unicode characters not covered by any of the other, > officially supported codepages. However, I can only test it on a US > XP. I'm worried about other, localized versions of Windows, most > notably t

Re: [WiX-users] Unicode. Unicode?

2007-12-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
It seems to be very difficult to find any information about what is actually supported. My belief is that the codepage you use has to map exactly onto one of the defined ANSI font ranges in Windows. See the 'code page bitfields' list in the FONTSIGNATURE structure for what GDI understands, at http: