Apr 07, 2008
04:26 PM
Hi, a little more research and I think I've found the answer to my question. Found an article in the IA knowledge base that says that IA requires the use of escaped Unicode documents and strings for display of non-Western characters, and suggests the use of Java's native2ascii binary to make the converson. Also the FFFE at the head of the file indicates the file is UTF16LE. When that's passed as a parameter to native2ascii, the Western European language license files convert and are displayed properly, and I expect that the non-Western European license files will display correctly also. 🙂
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Apr 07, 2008
01:22 PM
The license files are utf-16 encoded, I think. In hex, the beginning of the file looks like this: FFFE49006E007400650072 In a text editor (I use Textpad but Notepad behaves the same), the beginning FFFE is ignored, as are the null bytes, so you get Inter (etc.) In the IA license panel, you get ÿþI n t e r (etc.) So it seems to expect ascii and doesn't understand the double byte. Also, in what may be a related issue, when I run the installer, for language choices, I get only English and other western European languages for choices, but I have other locales selected in Project - Locales. For example, I have en, fr, de, ja, tr and zh_CN checked, and locale files are generated for them. But when I run the installer, only English, Deutsch and Francais are presented as choices. For any of these 3 choices, the manner of display of the license file is the same, ÿþ(letter)(space)(letter) etc. Any thoughts or clarification would be much appreciated!
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Apr 04, 2008
06:01 PM
I have localized license files in my IA project, and everything seems good with this, except that when these are displayed in the License panel during an install, they don't display correctly. The files I think are UTF-16 text files, and when English, French, German etc license files are displayed, every character is double-spaced, plus there are some odd characters displayed here and there. None of the text editors I have show any problem displaying the file contents. Am I missing some config step in the designer UI to tell it these aren't ascii files? I've searched but I can't find anything. Anyone know what might be wrong or how to resolve it?
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Mar 11, 2008
06:13 PM
Can anyone comment on the relevance of the book InstallAnywhere Tutorial and Reference Guide to InstallAnywhere 2008? The publication date is 2004 so I'm concerned it may be too outdated to be useful and would appreciate any opinions on whether it's still worth the bucks. A Google search didn't come up with anything else, but does any one know of any other worthwhile book or reference resource on InstallAnyhere?
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Mar 06, 2008
06:17 PM
Thanks. That was what they were trying to get away from doing, but it looks like they'll just have to bite the bullet. Appreciate your response.
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Mar 04, 2008
02:25 PM
I have been given a requirement to have our installer return a version number, something like having the installer executable accept a switch such as -v or an argument of some sort, in which case it just displays the product version number and doesn't install anything. I couldn't find any way built into IA 2008 Enterprise to do this, and wrote some (trivial) custom code to do it. With an argument like -check.version=true -silent the installer outputs the contents of an IA variable containing a version string to stdout. However this means I have to direct stdout to the console which outputs lots of other stuff. Can someone suggest an easier/better way to do this? I don't really want stdout directed to the console because I don't want it on during a normal user install. Is there a way to have my custom code do the redirect so that only the value it writes is seen?
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