[GD-Windows] InstallShield Japanese

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

Hello,

does anyone have experience building installers
with InstallShield for CJK languages?
I'm banging my head for several days against a seemingly solid
wall trying to make an installer which places
shortcuts with Japanese names in the Start Menu.
(things like "Uninstall Celtic Kings" and "Play Celtic Kings
Online with GameSpy Arcade")

We've done our other installers with InstallShield 6.1;
but it, as well as its updated brethren 6.3 and 7.0 Professional,
don't seem to know a thing about Unicode, and seem to use only
the "A" versions of the Windows API functions (dealing with
narrow, singlebyte characters), even when coupled
with a East Language Pack. InstallShield 7 Developer, which is
a completely different beast, based on Windows Installer
technology, seems to handle at least multibyte Japanese
encodings, but has a ton of other problems (heck, the damn
thing couldn't even install a shortcut for ITSELF properly).

I'm extremely frustrated, and if we weren't something like
a couple of weeks behind on the Japanese goldmaster, I would
think about patching the whole thing heavily with C++ DLLs.

Any help?

regards,
Assen