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Installation - Selecting English installs French #197

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. launch the installation program: WinFF Setup 1.5.0.0
2. select English (on a French Windows XP SP2) when prompted
3. complete the installation
4. open WinFF

What is the expected output?

an English version of WinFF when launched

What do you see instead?

a French version of WinFF when launched 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

version 1.5.0.0, on Windows XP Pro SP2

Please provide any additional information below.

My version of Windows is in French but I want to install
WinFF in English.  Much more results when looking for
help with web searches.

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hockeyk...@yahoo.ca on 6 Apr 2013 at 11:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Oh yes, I'm Marc by the way, forgot to sign.  Sorry.

Original comment by hockeyk...@yahoo.ca on 6 Apr 2013 at 11:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The windows installer language is just for installation. The installer installs 
all 40 languages in "C:\program files\winff\languages" (or wherever winff is 
installed to). Then winff chooses based on the system when opened.

Inno Setup, the windows installation program used, is available in 23 of the 40 
languages. To tie the installer's language to winff's, or only install the 
requested language, would reduced winff's languages to 23. 

A work around would be to go to the directory where winff language files are 
located (usually "c:\program files\winff\languages"). In this case we are 
wanting english which is the default language, so you would just rename the 
file winff.fr.po to something else like winff.fr.po.old. You could also just 
delete the winff.fr.po.

In the case of using other language like say you want Italian instead of 
French, you would rename winff.fr.po to winff.fr.po.old and winff.it.po to 
winff.fr.po.

Although i am sure other people have had and will have this problem, to fix 
this would require using a different windows installer available in all the 
languages winff is available, and some scripting. I like inno setup. It is well 
recognized not just by people but also by virus scanners and other security 
software. Switching installer would also mean throwing away 7 years of tweaks 
and bug fixes.

If somebody else would like to build a new installer, fine.

Original comment by bgg...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2013 at 6:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
On Linux you can start winff from a prompt in the language you want with e.g.:
LC_ALL=nl_NL.UTF8 winff

Is something like that even possible on Windows? It would mean that you could 
write a .bat file to start winff in the language of choice.

Original comment by poipodec...@hotmail.com on 7 Apr 2013 at 8:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thank you for the work around, that's fine for me.

You may just perhaps think of adding some info about the .po files
somewhere in the documentation, unless it's there already and I
missed it.

Good day to you and thank you for your work.

Marc

over and out

Original comment by hockeyk...@yahoo.ca on 7 Apr 2013 at 8:22