Hello there.
I've been in your situation not long ago and thanks to the list and to a lot
of web research I think I discovered some important facts about this:
- MSI technology "supports" (not officially) some kind of multilanguage as
detailed in the first links Tobias sent. Yet this has important drawbacks:
1. The language fallback mechanism (the way the msi will choose what
language to display) responds to the "format" section of the language and
regional settings, not to the display language. Ergo you can end up with a
Windows OS displaying in english, and the installer launching up in french
or whatever format you have selected as preferred format (format refers to
date/coin/etc preferences)
2. As microsoft does not officially support it, it may in any moment
retrieve this hidden "feature" from the windows installer technology. Ergo
you may end up with an installer that may not work well with future versions
of windows installer technology.
I strongly recommend you to follow the instructions published by Microsoft
itself on creating a bootstraper that detects the OS Display language. There
is a good paper here:
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/MUIMSI
Responding to the display language seems as a much better alternative than
to the "Format' section. The "display language" is a windows feature
supported since XP SP3, and called MUI (for multilingual user interface)
You will then find yourself with two files, a .exe bootstraper, and your msi
installer. To unify those two there are a variety of tools that can be used.
A free and good alternative to use is 7-zip :).
Best regards
2011/4/29 Tobias S <tobias.s1...@gmail.com>
> Hi Helge,
>
> Please consider e.g.
> http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/embeddedlang/index.htm
> (also available in German ;-) ). There is discussed an approach
> without bootstrapper (think also with a discussion about the needed
> transform generation):
>
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Multilanguage-install-td6161866.html#none
>
> Additionally maybe this link is helpful:
>
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Dynamically-set-WixVariable-WixUILicenseRtf-td6039979.html#none
>
>
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/wix-users-f687560.html
> btw. offers a good way to search this mailinglist ...
>
> For a bootstrapper consider DotNetInstaller
> (http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/)
>
> Best regards / Schöne Grüße
> Tobias
>
>
> 2011/4/29 Helge Kruse <helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know that a MSI file can handle only one locale. So I need a
> bootstrapper to select a MSI file on customer's choise. Where can I find
> information, how this can be done with WiX? I assume this can be a
> frequently asked question.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Helge
> >
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