I always get this mixed up but I thought that ASCII was basically a subset of ANSI and UTF-8 and they all look the same (unless you write a BOM) until you use non-ASCII characters. The grand majority of internal WiX goo is ASCII without a BOM so it all looks the same...
I think Joel agrees with my memory (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html): This has the neat side effect that English text looks exactly the same in UTF-8 as it did in ASCII, so Americans don't even notice anything wrong. _______________________________________________________________ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:25 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB Also, I have been looking at this file in more detail. The file itself is encoded with ANSI, but the XML header tag states that the XML is in UTF-8. Is this intentional? -----Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-12-14 9:01 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB Speaking of evil things... might I make a suggestion that two files be output? TransformX.wixmst (XML file) TransformX.wixmst.cab (paired cab file) This would be super ideal and would help keep separation of concerns for each file sane as well. Or would that break too much stuff? Can I add a command line argument to split these things up? Would anyone be opposed to that? ________________________________________ From: Bob Arnson [b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: June 12, 2014 6:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB On 6/12/2014 3:40 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > I had posted this question earlier but I guess it got lost in the > piles of emails going out to your adoring fans ;) No, I'm just busy. :) > In my torch command I have -xi -xo set, and I'm still getting a cab file with > a .wixmst extension? How do I force this to be the expected XML file? What > causes the conversion to a cab file in this case? If the output contains a file, it's stored as an XML file with a .cab at the beginning. There's no option to force WiX to not store the files in the output. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
