Translating an installer to a non-western language

mdewit · Post by **mdewit** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:28 am

I'm trying to translate my installer screens to various non-western languages, like Russian, Chinese and Greek. Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to get the mTranslator application to accept languages that require Unicode input.

I've read various posts that suggest that the translated files have to be 8-bit, and I've tried converting the files to UTF-8, but no luck.

Various reports on here suggest that it is (or was) possible, but we've tried versions 6 and 7, and no luck. Can anyone help us?

Thanks,
Mark

Gizm0 · Post by **Gizm0** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:32 am

I already have my installation translated to Greek (i'm from Greece anyway) and i never had a problem. Maybe your missing something? Like encoding on your dialogs labels?

Tinus · Post by **Tinus** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:00 am

Don't convert to UTF-8.
Convert to the windows codepage of the target system.

Gareth Owen · Post by **Gareth Owen** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:29 am

We have not had a problem doing the actual translation to Chinese, but there is an issue regarding the initial please wait dialogs shown as IA is extracting the data,

If you built your installer on a PC set to english language, when it is run on a chinese computer, the characters will not display correctly.

This only affects the first couple of progress dialogs for compressed builds, but it is a little annoying.

We have had to leave these in english for the moment. Unless you want to rebuild your installer for each language on a computer set to use that particular language.