On 18-Aug-11 19:08, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> But the real question here is, what changed? Why didn't WiX 3.0 bug me about 
> these problems?

Because WiX v3.0 didn't check as thoroughly for codepage problems. IOW, 
the problems always existed, WiX is just telling you about them now.

> It seems preposterous to me that, in 2011, I have to force all strings in an 
> installer to fit in a single ANSI code page.

MSI never adopted Unicode (not did the underlying structured-storage 
file format). UTF-8 is semi-supported, with the issues you found.

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