I think Windows 8 might be introducing a new variant, I have only tested Windows XP and 7.
In the past I have only tested local language variant by installing the local OS version (this is not WiX specific I have done a lot of UI localisation). Now with the multi-language OS option in Windows 7 it has made things harder - it is not 100% clear to me how you change to a new language; is changing the display formatting all? I would have thought that just saying I want German number and currency format doesn't mean I want German language, I might just be an English speaker in Germany. The location option in Windows 7 also adds another variant. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: 13 August 2013 21:39 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: multi-language bundle - A BIG THANKS OK I unravelled the Windows 8 configuration issue. This test system I thought was configured for German and English and I thought that I was setting both the System Default and the User Default to 1031 for these tests. I would change the order of the list under Language Preferences (based on various Internet statements to the effect that the top item in the list is the User Default). Not true, well at least not always true. On the Language Preferences dialog, click on the bottom item on the left panel, 'Change date, time or number formats' (and no clue that this is where you set the User Default Language ID). The top item in that dialog was set to 'Match selected display language (recommended)' So one can change that setting and set a specific language (German) and then the call in burn does return 0x407, rather than always English. But why did ''Match selected display language (recommended)' not work? Back to the Language Preferences dialog and eventually I noticed that both the English and German keyboard layouts were installed, but the German display language was not installed. So I installed it. Now the behavior is that the Wix setup runs in the Language that is at the top of the Display Language list, and not necessarily the language the user currently has selected (as the Windows 8 "Match selected display language" implies). So to summarise, after moving to WiX 3.8, the UsersDefaultLanguageID does control the displayed language of my bundle (if I do not use -lang ) AND on Windows 8 a user might be confused, but the underlying API is returning the Default so this does not appear to be a Wix behavioral issue. With that said, I wonder if there is still a problem with the Wix 3.8 implementation (or documentation) for a project in which the WixStdbaThemeWxl file is not located in a folder of 1033, and yet matches the UserDefaultLangID, it fails to use that thm.wxl file. Most examples that I have seem show adding other languages in there own lcid\thm.wxl file, but they do not necessarily make the point that the 'default' or English file also MUST be in a 1033 folder, for this code to make use of the file. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/My-experiences-making-a-multi-language-bundle-tp7208949p7587990.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
