English Windows users living abroad. (programming issue)

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English Windows users living abroad. (programming issue)

Postby phoenixxl » 07 Jun 2012 06:46

Hello,

I am on a crusade ! Well, in all seriousness .. Often and I mean a LOT of the time , not sporadically , installers really don't pay any attention to the actual reality of how somsone's windows is installed.

Over the years I have seen ...Windows Installers choosing installation language based on :

IP .. Very bad this one , my country for example has an isp covering 3 official languages.
Keyboard layout..
Location..

As a person who lives in Belgium - which has 3 official languages - and uses windows in English , I can pertinently say polling those settings are NOT the way to go.

There is only 1 place in the registry an installer should look for which language to install a program in and that's the registry equivalent of this value :

http://i.imgur.com/sxek6.png

I think it's nice to try and accommodate installers for different user preferences , but if it fails time after time in real life situations it defeats the purpose.
I also understand it's not always easy for english speaking devs to take these things into account , hence my feedback.

These are my first 3 tabs and kb settings as reference : http://i.imgur.com/bTFng.png

Believe me on this one , how the installer works now - and i'm not sure what you guys are checking for during the install to determine the language - it really doesn't work as intended.

I hope this post will be interpreted as being the constructive feedback it's mean to be.

Kind regards.
Phoenixxl.

EDIT: Aparently setting the laguage to "auto" in the main program has the same issue , it's not only installer.

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Re: English Windows users living abroad. (programming issue)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 07 Jun 2012 15:02

Locale is the best way to do it cross-Windows versions.
Not cool for everyone, but the best solution possible.
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Re: English Windows users living abroad. (programming issue)

Postby phoenixxl » 07 Jun 2012 16:13

It's a quick fix , no more no less.

I'm sorry , but dogma doesn't beat fact.

Have a nice life , and thank you for the quick reply.

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Re: English Windows users living abroad. (programming issue)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 07 Jun 2012 17:56

Unfortunately, you do not suggest any working fix for all windows versions currently supported.
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