So to be clear, it is only useful to pass in multiple cultures in at the
same time when all of those cultures share the same codepage?
Is there a common codepage that works with most languages and Windows
Installer? Such as utf-8 (65001)? I seem to recall reading that while
it may work, string may not work correctly (explicitly here:
http://www.nabble.com/Multi-language-msi-tf2057536.html#a5669170, but
then somewhat contractdicted here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2005/10/05/477577.aspx).
And more importantly, if I switch to using a common codepage like utf-8,
will my localization strategy (based on including additional transform
streams,
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/embeddedlang/index.htm)
work?
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From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:48 PM
To: Huck, Jacob
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] multiple cultures and codepage error
Huck, Jacob wrote:
When I go to light an msi using the above wixlib and numerous
other wixlibs that are not localized, I find that when I pass in
"-cultures:en-us" the msi compiles without any issues, but as soon as I
pass in "-cultures:ja;en-us", I get the following error:
light.exe : error LGHT0101 : The codepage '1252' has been
specified in multiple localization files. Please resolve the conflict.
Any insight into this error? When I compiled it with just
en-us, it clearly was using codepage 1252 in multiple loc files. My
understanding was that the multiple entries passed into the -culture arg
were to indicate an order of "use ja strings first if found, and en-us
strings if not".
Your understanding is correct but runs into the limitations of MSI: You
can't mix codepages in the MSI. The error isn't very good (please file a
bug -- it should be more descriptive) but basically it's saying that
once a codepage has been set, you can't set a different one. The end
result would be two codepages, and MSI doesn't support that.
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