CharlesB2
11th December 2006 17:35 UTC

Very strange error
Hello,

A guy installing my software installer has a very strange error:

The installation fails, and the output window shows some strange characters as path separators!! See screen copy
http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/2...rorwia2.th.png

The guy tells me that he has WinXP SP2, english version...
My installer is built with NSIS 2.20, and has been successfully tested on several different machines...
Does anyone have an idea of what can happen?

Thank you very much,

Charles

Red Wine
11th December 2006 18:17 UTC

Obviously it has nothing to do with the installer.
Probably should be an error on target's environment.

demiller9
11th December 2006 21:47 UTC

I think those are chinese currency symbols. I've seen japanese currency symbols replace the backslash, but it never interferes with the installer or operation of anything.

I think the file error is probably unrelated to those characters.

Don

onad
12th December 2006 12:51 UTC

1)
Try to put delimiters around the paths you install to e.g. "C:\whaterver here\and here"

2)
Convert the files and paths to Shortpaths before you install the files

3)
Use NSIS 2.22 with special build (LOGGING compiled in) and analyze the log file.

4)
Make a small tryout script to analyse the core issue if this case.

These tips just MIGHT help, you never know and it is worth a try.