Michael_Lutz
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Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:06 pm

To whom it may concern

I am working currently with version 6.4 and created a project (professional) with the language setting "Neutral" plus various different languages (i.e. German, English, French, Dutch etc.). I used the option "Create only a multilingual package". The project language seems to be English. Testing the installation within a German Windows XP OS with regional settings for German language shows diaglogs in English language. The documentation guides towards automatic recognition of the OS language/region settings in order to select the right language in the installation dialogs.

However - it is definately not working with my version. Does anybody has an idea or a workaround to overcome this situation?

thanks for your help in advance.

Michael Lutz
BITsoft

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Re: Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:00 pm

Hi,
with the language setting "Neutral" plus various different languages
Please note that Advanced Installer doesn't support the "Neutral" language. Did you select "English"?
Testing the installation within a German Windows XP OS with regional settings for German language shows diaglogs in English language.
I'm not sure why you are encountering this behavior. Can you please send us the AIP (Advanced Installer Project file) to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate it?

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Cosmin
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Michael_Lutz
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Re: Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:45 am

hello

thanks for your reply. Please view the attached screenshot to my separate mail to support @ advancedinstaller . com showing you the option "Language Neutral" besides all the other choosable language. Also attached to that email is the AI-File.

thanks for your earliest possible reply

Michael Lutz
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Re: Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:41 pm

Hi Michael,

After investigating this issue we found that this behavior is caused by a bug in Advanced Installer:
- you created a merge module which uses the neutral language
- you imported this merge module into a MSI project
- the project got corrupted and it was set to the neutral language

Until the next version of Advanced Installer is released (it will contain a bugfix), the solution is to manually edit the AIP. I modified your AIP and sent it to you. Let me know if the problem persists when using the modified project.

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Re: Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:08 am

hello Cosmin

thanks for your fast reply. Since I am using all my merge modules with setting "language neutral", is there a way for me to edit the aip-files too?

best regards,

Michael Lutz
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Re: Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:24 am

Hi Michael,

Although it is not recommended to do this yourself, you can edit the AIPs like this:
- the second line of a merge module AIP usually looks like this:

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<DOCUMENT type="Advanced Installer" CreateVersion="6.4" version="6.4" modules="msm" RootPath="." Language="en">
-in this line you need to make sure that the "Language" attribute is set to "en"
- find this component:

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<COMPONENT cid="caphyon.advinst.msicomp.BuildComponent">
- it should contains at least one component which looks like this:

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<ROW BuildKey="DefaultBuild" BuildName="DefaultBuild" BuildOrder="1" BuildType="0" Languages="en;it;nb" LangOpt="2" InstallationType="4"/>
- make sure that the "Languages" attribute doesn't contain the "neutral" string

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Re: Neutral Language does not recognize OS regional settings

Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:00 am

Thanks a lot!

best regards,

Michael Lutz
BITsoft

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