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I cant get to use none ASCII characters ( Russian for ex ) when creating a desktop shortcut name for the "primary output" of the installation. The text turns to blanks after the installation. Any ideas?

THANKS!!

zachi greenberger
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  • [Just some hints here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49595758/wix-toolset-license-agreement-multi-languages-issue) - this relates to WiX though. – Stein Åsmul Oct 05 '20 at 11:16
  • @SteinÅsmul couldn't find much help there, thanks anyways. – zachi greenberger Oct 06 '20 at 05:00
  • Is the shortcut name correctly in the log file? `msiexec /i your_package.msi /l*vx log.txt` – Krishty Oct 13 '20 at 13:07
  • @Krishty no its not, characters turn to squares ( unfortunately when i try to copy the squares here it turns to blanks ) – zachi greenberger Oct 25 '20 at 06:53
  • @zachigreenberger If you open the MSI via Orca (or a similar tool) and select the `Shortcut` table, does the name display correctly in the corresponding entry? – Krishty Oct 25 '20 at 22:09
  • @Krishty the name appears corrupted.. anyways i left this unanswered cause it lost priority for my project. THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP!!! – zachi greenberger Dec 17 '20 at 07:39

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My first idea was to play around with the codepage settings but it seems you might be hitting a design limitation if I am reading correctly the MS docs.

Extracted from the above article:

The code pages supported for deployment are: 1252 (Neutral, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish), 936 (Chinese (Simplified)), 950 (Chinese (Traditional)), 932 (Japanese), and 949 (Korean).

Bogdan Mitrache
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  • thanks @Bogdan Mitrache for the good reference. though i tried Chinese and Japanese and still the shortcut text turned to blanks. any idea why? – zachi greenberger Oct 09 '20 at 12:57
  • Maybe you're missing some language packs on your test machine? Have you tried installing other packages that create Russian or Chinese shortcuts? I don't usually play that much with localized installers, so I might be missing something too. – Bogdan Mitrache Oct 09 '20 at 13:27
  • Unfortunately the language pack was not the answer – zachi greenberger Oct 10 '20 at 06:02