wix internall strings cannot be localize

Question

Wix I18n Dev.The version of wixtoolset is V3.7. And the Installer UI is created by UIExtension. In the installation process, there are some UI strings cannot be localized. S

Answer 1

I already answered this question here.

Either read that or check out the paragraph called Progress Bar Messages in Nick Ramirez' book WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows.

The good people of packtpublishing are offering the chapter of his book containing that paragraph for free here:

Chapter 12: Localizing Your Installer. See page 329.

Another page of interest is this MSDN article: Standard Actions Reference which is also noted in the book.

Edit: Because of the comments I will post a working minimal example and a screenshot, so you see that it works:

    
        

        

        
            
        

    
    
      !(loc.InstallFiles)
      !(loc.CreateShortcuts)
      !(loc.WriteRegistryValues)
      !(loc.WriteRegistryValues)
      !(loc.RegisterProduct)
      !(loc.PublishFeatures)
      !(loc.PublishFeatures)
      !(loc.InstallFinalize)
    
    
    

    
        
            
                
            
        
    

    
        
            
        
            
        
    

Accompanying this example, you have to have a localisation file for your Culture. You have to set the Culture in the project properties under Build->Cultures to build. In my case I named it es-es.wxl and the file contents follow:

  Archivo no encontrado: [2]. Compruebe que el archivo existe y que puedes acceder a él.
  Installazione del archivos
  Archivo: [1], Tamaño de archivo: [6], Directorio: [9]
  Creacion de los atajos
  Atajo [1] creado
  Escribir en registro
  Camino: [1], Nombre: [2], valor: [3]
  Registrar a los usuarios
  Usario: [1]
  Registrar producto
  Producto: [1]
  Publicar las características
  Caraterística: [1]
  Publicar el producto
  Producto: [1]
  Finalizar la instalación
  Finalizar [ProductName]

Lastly a Screenshot to show you that it works:

Another edit: To localize error strings, you simply have to define Error elements with the corresponding error numbers:

    Una parte de la ruta de la carpeta no es válido. Se está vacío o supera la longitud permitida por el sistema.
    !(loc.Error_1311)

The first error string is hard-coded, so that's not such a good solution. It's better to use localization files, as it is done in the second Error element.