You are right. An MSI can only be localized for one language. What that means is actually pretty simple. If you look inside the MSI database (with a tool like Orca.exe), you'll see that many of the tables contain text (the Control table, for instance). Once the MSI is built, these strings are there, hard coded.
When we're talking about -loc flags and -cultures and Light.exe, this is all happening before the MSI is formed. This all happens in the linking stage of the build process. At that time, it's up in the air what the final strings in the MSI will be set to. So, you can have more than one -loc flag, and yes, you can set -cultures to several languages. If the string Light is looking for isn't defined in the first culture, it falls back to the second and so on. For example: -cultures:en-us;en This will use .wxl files that specified en-us as their culture first. If it can't find a string there, it searches .wxl files that specified "en". If it can't find it there, you get a build-time error. When all is put together, you've got your MSI, with a mixture of code from .wxs files and .wxl files. When people talk about using transforms, they're saying that the transform is going to change the MSI at install time. This has nothing to do with Light or its flags. It's similar to applying a patch. It's a technique that's completely separate and involves making several fully functional MSIs that are hard coded in different languages, making diffs of them, and storing the diffs in transforms. That's the essence of making a patch. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Yet-another-localization-question-tp5431565p5436209.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
