Re: [GD-Windows] InstallShield Japanese

[Ben C. <be...@gu...>]

On Sunday, October 13, 2002, 7:38:36 PM, someone wrote:

[snip]
> 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?

 Most Japanese applications simply pass Shift-JIS characters to the
standard single-byte APIs - this is obviously a massive hack, but it's
the way things have worked since Windows 3.1 (IIRC), and there are a
vast body of apps out there that work like this. I'd suggest simply
trying that (entering SJIS whereever you put the shortcut names), and
seeing what happens. Of course, if you're testing this on an English
version of Windows you'll need to set the "language for non-Unicode
applications" (in Regional Settings) to Japanese to get it to work,
but that's pretty common with Japanese-language apps.

 I'm pretty sure that's what 99% of the Japanese apps I've seen do - I
definitely remember that the majority don't install shortcuts
correctly (you either get mangled names or no shortcuts at all) when
the default languages are set to English - implying that unicode
wasn't really involved anywhere ^-^;. If you are really stuck I can
have a brief hunt and see if I haven't got a Japanese Installshield
app lying around that I can verify this behaviour with.

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