[wix-users] Lock bootstrapper and MSI to en-US culture

[Blair Murri]

I was looking for the blog entry from more than a decade ago that explains this, but in my old age I've temporarily misplaced the memory of who wrote it and my Google-foo skills failed me, but basically here's the process (more-or-less):

1. Windows Installer starts, and if logging is turned on by whatever means starts logging in the installing user's locale.
2. Windows Installer parses the referenced package file's summary information, and switches to that locale.
3. Windows Installer then opens the main content of the package file, then processes command line properties, and changes locale as needed based on the locale-relevant properties.
If the "client" isn't skipped, then the "server" part of the log starts up in the locale used by the client log at the time the service is connected.

This, the only way to set the locale at the beginning of the log is to call the first MSI API with that locale set already. However, the bulk of the log should end up in the locale you built the package for.

Blair


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Subject: [wix-users] Lock bootstrapper and MSI to en-US culture

Hi,

I am trying to get my bootstrapper and MSI to always use the en-US culture.  The UI is not a problem (C# code), I have that set to use the culture, but I would like the bootstrapper and MSI log files to use en-US as well, specifically the date/time format in the log file.

I set the "Cultures to build" value in the MSI installer to be en-US and in the bootstrapper I added it manually (The project setting controls settings are disabled), but that had no effect.  I still get the non-US date/time being output.

Log file example:

=== Verbose logging started: 24.02.2020  16:31:26  Build type: ...

Thanks,
Tyrel

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