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arjunindia#

Installer language

One customer running NSIS built installer sent me a screen shot (See attached)

Any idea why is it showing that instead of English text?

Rgds,
Arjun
Yathosho#
if you included multiple languages, but don't allow the user to choose the language on startup, you should place english as the first language (rather than sorting by alphabet). otherwise you can run into problems like this, for instance if the windows language and the keyboard setting don't match.
arjunindia#
Thanks for your help.

How do I do that? As in how to set English as Default language.

Your suggesting, change -

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Bulgarian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Danish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Dutch"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "French"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "German"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Greek"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Italian"

to this:

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Bulgarian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Danish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Dutch"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "French"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "German"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Greek"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Italian"

Rgds,
Arjun
arjunindia#
Got it.

Here it is:

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English" ;first language is the default language
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "French"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "German"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Spanish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "SpanishInternational"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "SimpChinese"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "TradChinese"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Japanese"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Korean"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Italian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Dutch"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Danish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Swedish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Norwegian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "NorwegianNynorsk"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Finnish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Greek"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Russian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Portuguese"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "PortugueseBR"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Polish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Ukrainian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Czech"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Slovak"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Croatian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Bulgarian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Hungarian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Thai"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Romanian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Latvian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Macedonian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Estonian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Turkish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Lithuanian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Slovenian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Serbian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "SerbianLatin"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Arabic"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Farsi"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Hebrew"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Indonesian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Mongolian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Luxembourgish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Albanian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Breton"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Belarusian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Icelandic"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Malay"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Bosnian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Kurdish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Irish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Uzbek"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Galician"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Afrikaans"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Catalan"