Oogst
14th July 2010 09:28 UTC
How to force to a certain language
I would like to force my installer to always be in German, regardless of the Windows language and such. What do I need to do to make all the standard interface elements German? I thought just adding this to the top of my installer script would fix it:
Function .onInit
StrCpy $LANGUAGE "1031"
FunctionEnd
However, the NSIS script compiler considers this okay, but my installer is still in English. What am I doing wrong here?
By the way, I found the value "1031" for German here. I also tried using the hex value given there: $0407.
th_mi
14th July 2010 13:50 UTC
You did not pass any code to find out the problem you have, Have you tried it this way:
;--------------------------------
OutFile languages.exe
XPStyle on
RequestExecutionLevel user
;--------------------------------
LoadLanguageFile "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Language files\English.nlf"
LoadLanguageFile "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Language files\German.nlf"
;--------------------------------
Section ""
SectionEnd
;--------------------------------
Function .onInit
;english
;StrCpy $LANGUAGE 1031
;german
StrCpy $LANGUAGE 1033
FunctionEnd
Animaether
14th July 2010 13:56 UTC
if you're using MUI2, you can also use..
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "German"
..and call it a day - no need to touch the language bits yourself; it pretty much does what th_mi explained under the hood
Oogst
14th July 2010 14:24 UTC
Ah, that was easy! I did have to combine it with an include, but that was it:
!include "MUI2.nsh"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "German"
Awesomesauce, thanks for the quick help!
Wizou
14th July 2010 17:57 UTC
if you don't want MUI or MUI2, just do a
LoadLanguageFile"${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Languagefiles\German.nlf"
and no other LoadLanguageFile...