Weird behavior in MUI_LANGUAGE
 

Hi everybody. I found out a strange thing today when I was preparing a kit for my freeware application (soon to be released on the internet, yay!). I put several languages in the installer:

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Romanian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Dutch"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "German"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Swedish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Danish"

However. The Romanian language DID NOT APPEAR in the dropdown list. That left me a bit amazed. So I spent about 1 hour just to see why that happens. I messed around a lot with the files in the NSIS language folders. Ultimately, I made it work. Here's what I did: I modified the Romanian.nlf file. The code page was set to 1250. I changed it to 1252 to work. That was for example the Dutch code page and when I put Romanian content in the Dutch file, it worked. Anyway, I spent a lot of time finding this out, but it's only a workaround. Any ideas why this happens? Should I specify some special codepage instructions in the installer?

By the way, in case you're interested, here's how I call that language dialogue:

# Installer functions
Function .onInit
InitPluginsDir
Push $R1
File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\spltmp.bmp !Resources\Splash.bmp
advsplash::show 2000 500 500 -1 $PLUGINSDIR\spltmp
Pop $R1
Pop $R1
!insertmacro MUI_LANGDLL_DISPLAY
FunctionEnd


Also, maybe someone could tell me how to stop NSIS' ordering of languages as per alphabetic order. How do I sort the languages in my own way?

Thank you in advance.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=271754

Stu

Use MUI_LANGDLL_ALLLANGUAGES in NSIS 2.28 to show unsupported languages in the language selection dialog. Be aware though, that the user will see gibberish when selecting one of those.

Thank you
 

Thank you both. Yes, there is some gibberish only instead of 3 characters. But I solved it by replacing them with other characters and it's ok now. Thank you both : ).