Angus Leeming
14th June 2005 14:19 UTC

Multilingual dropdown list
Guys, my app supports a bunch of languages and I'd like the installer to have a drop down list containing the following data. However, it seems that NSIS isn't unicode aware? Am I out of luck?

bg_BG ***1073;***1098;***1083;***1075;***1072;***1088;***1089;***1082;***1080;
ca_ES Català
cs_CZ ***268;eština
da_DK Dansk
de_DE Deutsch
en_US English
es_ES Español
eu Euskara
fi_FI Suomi
fr_FR Français
he_IL ***1506;***1489;***1512;***1497;***1514;
hu_HU Magyar
it_IT Italiano
nl_NL Nederlands
nn_NO Nynorsk
no_NO Norsk Bokmål
pl_PL Polski
pt_PT Português
ro_RO Româna
ru_RU ***1056;***1091;***1089;***1089;***1082;***1080;***1081;
sk_SK Slovenský
sl_SI Slovenš***269;ina
sv_SE Svenska
tr_TR Türkçe
wa_BE Walon

onad
14th June 2005 16:24 UTC

Since you have the source to NSIS you are not out of luck...
Serisously, if you want to support unicode on Win9x there is a MS Unicode on w9X support DLL that makes life a little easier. Before you attemt anything however not that you must understand what all the terms like LCID, MBCS etc mean.

Go to http://www.multilizer.com/ for good free documentation on the subjects.

Angus Leeming
14th June 2005 17:18 UTC

Ho hummm. My frame of reference is a little different as I come from the unix world, but I'm familiar with the concept of locale IDs and character encodings, yes. It seems that UTF-8 would be one possible encoding of a MBCS character whilst a "Unicode" character is encoded in UCS-2.

Here's another good page with a Windows slant.
http://www.codeproject.com/tips/inte...nalization.asp

However, that doesn't really help me here because I don't understand where you're going with "if you want to support unicode on Win9x there is a MS Unicode on w9X support DLL that makes life a little easier".

I see that it is possible to have an entire interface written in unicode. Eg, googling on "NSIS LOCALE_NSIS_NAME hebrew" pulls up:
http://cvs.limewire.org/fisheye/view..._iw.properties

I also see tantilizing evidence that these bods have created a list of the languages they ship:
http://www.limewire.org/pipermail/gu...ry/001919.html

But so far I haven't seen the way to put these pieces together.

Regards,
Angus