FYI Bhavik, codepage 65001 is UTF-8, but Windows Installer doesn't support it.
Specifically, when I've used it, it messed up the fonts in the Basic UI when uninstalling (showed squares) which I kind of worked around by making it show the Maintenance dialog when uninstalling from ARP. In the long term, we just set all our filenames to be ANSI only. Can you rename your files after they come out of your 3rd party tool? And perhaps even rename them back to the original with smart quotes after install on first run? -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 26 January 2011 08:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Getting Error LGHT0311 The MSI file format is ANSI. That means your characters have to conform to whatever codepage you are picking. If you don't fix the error, you'll get squares instead of whatever character you think you want. There isn't really anything the WiX toolset can do. It's an MSI limitation. -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Bhavik Hathi <bhavik.ha...@yahoo.co.in>wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build an MSI using Wix but getting following error when I > build > the solution: > > A string was provided with characters that are not available in the > specified > database code page '1252'. Either change these characters to ones that > exist in > the database's code page, or update the database's code page by modifying > one of > the following attributes: Product/@Codepage, Module/@Codepage, > Patch/@Codepage, > PatchCreation/@Codepage, or WixLocalization/@Codepage. > > The issue is, one of my file contains smart quotes (“and ”) in the name. > Looks > like Wix is not able to recognize these smart quotes. I also tried to > replace > them with escape sequences (“ and ”) but that too is giving the same > error. > > Also, I will not be able to change the smart quotes (“and ”) to normal > quotes (“ > and “) in the file name as the file gets generated coming from a third > party > tool. > > Can someone please let me know how to get rid of this error? This has > become a > blocking issue for me. > > Any help would really appreciated. > > Thanks, > Bhavik Hathi > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better > price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
