Arabic & Hebrew support

[garyk]

I followed the procedure for translating the installer to other languages.
All the language files use ANSI encoding.
European languages work fine.
Arabic and Hebrew appear as garbage letters in the installer.
íáÛí
ÇáÊÇáì
ÇáÚæÏÉ
It seems to me that IA is using the right encoding but the wrong character set.
I am running on W7 64 bit.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Gary

[giaviv]

Dear Gary,

Please try setting the CODEPAGE compiler variable to the desired code page you wish to work with. Here is what this variable does:

CODEPAGE: If unspecified, the recommended UTF-8 unicode value of 65001 is used. Other suggested values are 65000 for UTF-7 unicode and 1252 for the English codepage, or 0 for codepage neutral. Change this value if your setup installs or otherwise makes use of files with accented or non-ASCII locale-specific characters in their names. Ensure this codepage matches the codepage of your current host system to prevent data corruption in your MSI databases and to ensure the correct codepage is used on target systems, thus preventing issues with incorrectly interpreted file names leading to failures when finding files at install-time. Using unicode codepages will render your setups unworkable on Windows 9X operating systems (Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME); however it will ensure the broadest compatibility on Windows NT operating systems (Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, and Server 2008 R2).

[garyk]

Thanks for the answer.
Since it is a compiler variable I can not change it during installation so I need to set it to a single value which will be good for all OS languages.
What would be the best value to use to serve all Latin and Right To Left languages?
Thanks

[giaviv]

Please try 1255 - thanks.

[garyk]

I did.
Same gibberish letters are displayed.