Does the idea of searching for the default sublang sound like a good idea then?
Neil
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 28 May 2013 21:44
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Burn Localisation
It needs to work correctly on Windows XP. Most of the loc functions you'd want
to use don't. <sigh/>
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Neil Sleightholm
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Does anyone remember whether there was a conscious decision to use LANGID based
folders for localisation of burn rather than culture name based folders (e.g.
fr-FR)?
(Side note: I am using LANGID rather than LCID here as I believe LCID is more
than just the language information.)
The issue I have with the current implementation is that you need to supply a
translation for every sub language, when using culture names in .NET you can
create a French folder (fr) and both France (fr-FR) and Belgium (fr-BE) sub
languages can work with it.
There are a couple of alternatives to resolving this:
1. Enhance the LocProbeForFile() code to search for the primary language
version of the current locale if it doesn’t find a specific sub language
folder. This would involve taking the current LANGID masking it with 0x3FF and
then calling MAKELANGID(masked_langid, SUBLANG_DEFAULT) and probing that folder.
2. Enhance the LocProbeForFile() code to use culture names and the fall
back to using LANGID. It would need to probe for lang-sublang first and then
just lang.
I would prefer to use option 2 as it seems to be more reliable as I have read
that LANGID values have had to be adjusted to cope with the number of
languages. The problem is, and this probably answers my original question, that
there aren’t any C++ function to retrieve this information (well not that also
work on Windows XP). So it looks like only option 1 is viable.
Does anyone have a view on this?
Regards
Neil
Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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