[wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom bootstrapper

[Hoover, Jacob]

WixStdBA already has localized strings for its install dialogs.  And the UI is localizable. If you roll your own and it’s just a “launcher” for your MSI, how would expect ARP to remember this selection for updates / uninstalls?


From: viharika reddy [mailto:viharikareddygopu at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 3:39 PM
To: Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
Cc: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom bootstrapper

Hi Jacob,

>>>> If you're already creating a bundle, why are you worrying about the MSI?
I am not creating the bundle here. I am creating a simple bootstrapper application (my own) which launches the MSI based on the language selection. Is Wix bundle has the capability to display language selection and launch the MSI accordingly?

>>>> Are these installer localizations or localizations on the installed application?
These are installer localizations. During installation, if I select Japanese language in Windows English locale OS, the MSI dialog text should be in Japanese. The MSI dialog text should be based on the language selection by the user and not based on the OS locale.

Please let me if you need more information. And correct me if I am wrong.

-Viharika
On Wed, 26 Feb, 2020, 11:40 PM Hoover, Jacob, <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com<mailto:Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>> wrote:
If you're already creating a bundle, why are you worrying about the MSI?  Are these installer localizations or localizations on the installed application?

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Subject: [wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom bootstrapper

Hi,

I would like to know whether I am following a right approach or not to create a multi-lang installer(English and Japanese). I am following below approach.

*Package creation:*

   1. Default language is set to English in my product.wxs file.
   2. Creating the msi package
   3. Creating Japanese localized msi package using "-dcodepage=932" and
   "-cultures:ja-JP" options.
   4. Generating a transform file (1041.mst) using torch by passing the
   above two msi packages(English and Japanese)
   5. Creating a simple bootstrapper application with language selection
   dialog. Now my package contains
      1. msi package
      2. 1041.mst file (japanese) and
      3.  setup.exe (bootstrapper)

*Note*: I am not including Japanese msi in my package

*Installation:*

   1. setup.exe displays a lang-selection dialog upon its launching.
   2. If user selects "English" then msi will be launched as "msiexex /i
   product.msi"
   3. If user selects "Japanese" then msi will launched as "msiexe /i
   product.msi 1041.mst"


Could please confirm that I am following a right process here to create a multi-language installer? Please let me know if there is any better approach or any drawbacks in my current process.

-Viharika

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