Re: Need help with CABWIZ

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Just a slight clarification - Unicode doesn't simply include Japanese
characters - it can support them, but having Unicode doesn't simply give you
Japanese glyph support (and CE is more correctly UTF16). CE handles Unicode
just fine - in fact that's all it handles. CABWIZ is a tool separate from
it, and while it's disappointing such an error would occur, it's not due to
CE - it's in the CAB generation that it's failing. The CAB spec isn't
published, but I've doen a fair bit of reverse engineering on it, and based
on what I've seen, it doesn't have provision for non ANSI characters, as the
descriptor record in the archive is all ANSI and it wouldn't know how to
handle a multi-byte character.

-Chris



"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually the problem is that it doesn't handle its own language's
characters at all, either in ANSI or in Unicode. Microsoft has been
selling MS-DOS and Windows systems using ANSI code page 932 (Shift-JIS)
for more than 20 years, they've been selling Windows CE and Windows Mobile
using Unicode which includes Japanese characters, and now they're selling
the Japanese version of Visual Studio 2005 which can't cope with their
operating systems.


"The PocketTV Team" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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wow, good find!

i didn't know CABWIZ couldn't handle non-ANSI characters in registry keys
or value names.

that's pretty lame...

"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Screenshot at htp://www.geocities.jp/hitotsubishi/wm5_registry.png )

Should be http://www.geocities.jp/hitotsubishi/wm5_registry.png

OK I need help typing too, but mostly I need help with CABWIZ for the
reason described. I don't care about the quotation marks, I just need
the key names to work. By the way I experimented with deleting the
quotation marks too but the result still just damaged the device's
registry.





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