Setting language and code page attributes

When you localize your MSI package, you'll need to alter your Product and Package elements to suit. To do so, you'll leverage code pages and locale identifiers (LCIDs). So the first thing to do is define what we mean by these terms.

A locale identifier is an ID used to classify a particular language and the region where it's spoken. It serves the same purpose as an IETF language tag, such as "en-us", but is formatted as a number. For example, "1033" means English as spoken in the United States. A full chart of LCIDs can be found at Microsoft's MSDN web site by searching for locale ID. The URL is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx

Although that page also provides LCIDs in hexadecimal form, you should always use the decimal form in WiX.

A code page is an add-on of extra printable characters that aren't covered in the basic set of 128 ASCII characters. I might as well break the news that WiX does not use Unicode. It has to do with...