How to translate Windows Installer?

[Tao Wang]

Could you tell me what encoding should I used for packaging/win32/gnucash.iss.in

I think it's supposed to be UTF-8, however, when I open the file in my
system, I found many lines, especially Greek translation part, turning
into gibberish. I think they may just save as ASCII, which is actually
their local encoding, rather than ASCII. So, the file may be broken
for encoding issue? Could you fix it?

And when I run the GnuCash installer, why I cannot see other language?
I can only see English and Greek as the option, where is other
language? My system is zh_CN, so all existing language should same to
my locale.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, cri79 at libero.it <cri79 at libero.it> wrote:
> Below there are the directions from Christian Stimming that I received when I
> wanted to do the same thing for Italian (I hope that they are still valid:
> developer please confirm):
>
>>>> I would like to know if it's possible (and how) to translate the GnuCash
>>>> windows installer in Italian.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure. All settings related to the language(s) in the installer are
>>> controlled through the file packaging/win32/gnucash.iss.in . During
>>> "make ; make install" time, the file gnucash.iss will be created from
>>> that iss.in file, which in turn will be used as input for the Inno
>>> Setup program that creates the installer.
>>>
>>> In particular, the following settings will have to be added:
>>>
>>> - For the built-in messages of the Installer, in section [Languages]
>>> (line 220), add a line
>>> Name: "it" MessagesFile: "compiler:Languages\Italian.isl"
>>>
>>> - For the gnucash-specific messages in the Installer, copy&paste all
>>> lines in the [CustomMessages] section (line 232 and following) similar
>>> to the other languages: You will have to add one line beginning like
>>> "it.MessageNameFooBar" for each custom message and add your italian
>>> translation there.
>>>
>>> - One line has to be added for the CodePage in line 262, like so:
>>> it.LanguageCodePage=1252
>>>
>>> - If you want to translate the "README" which is shown as last screen
>>> as well, you have to create a file like doc/README-de.win32-bin.txt
>>> but for "it", then add the appropriate installation rules in
>>> doc/Makefile.am, then add this file to the gnucash.iss.in line with
>>> the MessagesFile:"... Italian.isl", line 220, similar to the other
>>> languages.
>
> Regards
> Cristian
>
>
>>----Messaggio originale----
>>Da: dancefire at gmail.com
>>Data: 26/04/2010 22.40
>>A: <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
>>Ogg: How to translate Windows Installer?
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I almost finished my po translation, and I want to translate the
>>Windows installer to support zh_CN. Could you tell me how to do the
>>translation for Windows Installer? Thanks.
>>
>>--
>>Regards
>>
>>Tao Wang
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>
>
>



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Regards

Tao Wang