Using Localized Versions of WixUI
Using translated UI strings
WixUIExtension includes a set of WiX localization (.wxl) files that contain translated UI text, error and progress text strings for several languages. To specify a UI language for your installer, pass the desired culture value on the command line when calling light. For example:
light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:fr-fr Product.wixobj -out Product.msi
WixUIExtension includes translated strings for the following languages:
| Language name | Culture code | WXL file name |
| English | en-us | WixUI_en-us.wxl |
| French | fr-fr | WixUI_fr-fr.wxl |
| German | de-de | WixUI_de-de.wxl |
| Italian | it-it | WixUI_it-it.wxl |
| Japanese | ja-jp | WixUI_ja-jp.wxl |
| Polish | pl-pl | WixUI_pl-pl.wxl |
| Russian | ru-ru | WixUI_ru-ru.wxl |
| Spanish | es-es | WixUI_es-es.wxl |
Creating multiple setups with different setup UI languages
You can create a series of .msi files that each use different setup UI languages by calling candle once and then calling light multiple times with different culture values. For example:
candle Product.wxs light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:en-us Product.wixobj -out Product_en-us.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:fr-fr Product.wixobj -out Product_fr-fr.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:de-de Product.wixobj -out Product_de-de.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:it-it Product.wixobj -out Product_it-it.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:ja-jp Product.wixobj -out Product_ja-jp.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:pl-pl Product.wixobj -out Product_pl-pl.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:ru-ru Product.wixobj -out Product_ru-ru.msi light -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:es-es Product.wixobj -out Product_es-es.msi
Using translated error and progress text
By default, WixUI will not include any translated Error or ProgressText elements. You can include them by referencing the WixUI_ErrorProgressText UI element:
<UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />