You should use .wxl (WiX localization) files for, well, localization. It takes a few tricks to get them working, but then it's smooth sailing.
My main WiX project directory is setup something like this Everything is stripped down for public consumption, and I am just doing English right now, but the picture is correct: ..\WiX\ant_wix.xml <-- I build with ant, was using it pre-WiX ..\WiX\lang \en-us\proj_en-us.wxl \License.rtf \de-de\proj_de-de.wxl \License.rtf ..\WiX\src \proj1.wxs \proj2.wxs \frag1.wxs ..\WiX\wixobj ..\WiX\wixlib ..\WiX\Packages \en \de The en-us .wxl file is something like this: <?xml version='1.0'?> <WixLocalization Culture='en-us' xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization'> <String Id='LANG'>1033</String> <String Id='Company'>MindCapers</String> <String Id='ProductName'>SomeProductName in English</String> ... </WixLocalization> To access from within a .wxs file: <Package Description='!(loc.ProductName)' Comments='!(loc.ProductName) v1.0' Manufacturer='!(loc.Company)' InstallerVersion='200' Compressed='yes' /> To build, it's just the light command line that needs to have this added: -cultures:en-us -loc "lang\en-us\prod_en-us.wxl" -dWixUILicenseRtf="lang\en-us\License.rtf" For each language of course. I also change the output directory to reflect the localization, like so: -out "Packages\en\prod_v1.0.msi" As I mentioned, many steps, but worth the refactoring if you need to localize to several languages Julie Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:42:11 +0800 From: Abhradeep Thakurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with localization of product name To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Can you please help me in finding out a way to localize the product name. We have used the technique of using .wxi (where the strings are defined as ?defined ? ) file which in turn gets localized but this is not accepted by Microsoft Loc Studio 4.6 . So can u suggest a work around ? Thanks and Regards, Abhradeep Guha Thakurta _____________________________________________________________________________ Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by MessageLabs. For more information please visit http://www.ers.ibm.com _____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users