Since I don't have my MSFT email anymore, I don't have my pointer to the LocVer
docs I had finally found (after years of searching) that worked for me.
You have to escape the '{' and/or the '\' characters in the _locComment_text
pseudo attribute. I forget the escaping rules, but I do remember they were not
intuitive to me.
Since LocStudio is an internal MSFT thing, you will need to go to your loc
team, to the MSN/Windows Live localization people (look up ArthurJ [if I recall
correctly]), or to the windows localization people, until you find someone who
can point you to the reference on how to format and escape char sequences in
LocComments.
An alternative, if you either don't need to localize the text styles or if you
wish to "standardize" the text styles, is to create new strings and alter the
strings in the dialog wxs itself... something like this:
Dialog text: !(loc.WelcomeDlgTitle) -->
!(loc.TitleTextStyle)!(loc.WelcomeDlgTitle)
Create new loc string: <String Id="TitleTextStyle"
Overridable="yes">{\WixUI_Font_Bigger}</String>
Change old loc string: <String Id="WelcomeDlgTitle" Overridable="yes">Welcome
to [ProductName] Setup</String>
You could put the text style strings into their own WXL files (one for each
culture), which you could "localize" as needed without running it through the
loc engine (by establishing what they are and making it a "code" thing instead
of a "localizer/text" thing, treating changes needed by languages as a bug
against the core team instead of the loc team). Just put them in as build data
in your LBA tree. After all, layout is up to the core team, translation is for
the loc team, so the strategy would make sense.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:23 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] pseudo-loc UI shows {WixUI_Font_Bigger} &
{WixUI_Font_Title}
Thanks Blair. You are right - the pseudo-loc routine pseudo-localized
"{\WixUI_Font_Bigger}".
To prevent this happen, I tried:
<String Id="WelcomeDlgTitle"
Overridable="yes"><!--_locComment_text="{Locked="{\WixUI_Font_Bigger}"}"-->{\WixUI_Font_Bigger}Welcome
to [ProductName] Setup</String>
But it did not work:
<String Id="WelcomeDlgTitle" Overridable="yes"><!--
_locComment_text="{Locked="{\WixUI_Font_Bigger}"}"-->థ్క{\WîxÙÍ_Föñt_Þíggêr}Wël¢ómé
tö [ProductName] §ëtµp _ʃ¯ʅ _ʃ¯ʅ _ʃ¯ʅ _ʃ¯ʅ _థ్క</String>
How can I use locComment_text to lock part of the string so that this part is
not pseudo-localized?
Thanks
Lian
-----Original Message-----
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:39 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] pseudo-loc UI shows {WixUI_Font_Bigger} &
{WixUI_Font_Title}
Could your pseudo-loc routine have removed the "\" characters found within
the curly braces in your .wxl files? Could your TextStyle table have been
somehow affected by your localization activities?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367524(VS.85).aspx
-----Original Message-----
From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:27 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] pseudo-loc UI shows {WixUI_Font_Bigger} &
{WixUI_Font_Title}
Hi,
Our pseudo-localized installer shows {WixUI_Font_Bigger} &
{WixUI_Font_Title} on all install windows. We just reused Wix's dialogs and
localized the Wix strings.
The same behavior was observed in one of our previous project's installer.
How can we fix this issue?
Appreciate your help!
Thanks
Lian
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