I am trying to add a new language to a set of Installshield installers that come together in a suite installer.
At first, the new language was not one listed in the “Tools->Add New Language…” wizard. But following the advice from Q106687: Add an Unsupported Language to a Basic MSI Project and from kor21727 in InstallShield Community: Adding an unsupported Language the new language appeared:
<IS Install Path>\Support\Language.dat
(add Azeri=42c
)<IS Install Path>\Support\ProLanguage.dat
(add Azeri=42c
)<IS Install Path>\Support\Langs.ini
(add 1068=Installed
)<IS Install Path>\Redist\0409
as <IS Install Path>\Redist\042C
<IS Install Path>\Support\0x042c.ini
<IS Install Path>\Languages\1068 (UNICODE).txt
After doing the above I was able to add the new language to all my installers. Everything appears to be OK except when I come to the Suite installer. The other installers show the translated strings from the string table in the User Interface->Dialogs section. However, the suite installer still shows English dialogs. The suite installer builds but when I try to run it I get an unknown error.
I had to do two additional things in order to include Azeri in a Suite installation. There may also be a third thing if your use of Azeri should be right-to-left. (From some spot research it appears that Azeri is sometimes written right-to-left, and sometimes left-to-right, depending on which characters it uses. I'm uncertain whether InstallShield's Suites support this nuance, so you may have to decide up front.)
REG_SZ
value 1068=Installed
to HKLM\Software\InstallShield\NN.N\Professional\Languages
(this allowed me to select Azeri in the IDE; if you had used the Add New Language wizard, it may have done this for you).1068 (UNICODE).txt
in the <IS Install Path>\Languages\Suite
folder. Note that the strings here are not identical to the ones in the <IS Install Path>\Languages
folder.After these additional changes, I was able to add Azeri to my suite project, to select it run time, and to see the strings I had changed from English appear correctly. (I did not try with actual Azeri strings; I just prefixed the English strings with Azeri
, but outside of any font issues this shouldn't matter.)