Japanese MSI with UTF8 65001 codepage issues?

[KailasJ]

Has anyone seen any issues with a japanese MSI after setting the
codepage of to UTF-8 65001? I am trying to support multilingual
install i.e. other language tables would also be inside the MSI.

after Setting the code to 65001 europen languages like german,french
do show up correctly however there is a problem just with japanese.
when I set the code page to 65001 I dont see japanese charactes but
see junk.
here's what I am doing for japanese.

convert all the IDT files to UTF-8 format.

set the codepage in idt files to 65001 . currently they have japanese
codepage 932 & all the strings are encoded that way.

Import all these IDT files into the MSI database using orca.

If I open the database in ORCA on a japanese box I can see all the
strings correctly which tells me the import has succeeded.

however inspite of that when I run the MSI I get junk characters.
any ideas/thought/code snippets would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Carolyn Napier [MSFT]]

UTF-7 and UTF-8 codepages are not fully supported with Windows Installer.

When dealing with codepages you must also be careful with how data is added to the installation
package. Consult the "localizing a windows installer package" topic in MSDN for more information on
the steps for that. Additionally, are your problems with full UI or basic UI?

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- Carolyn Napier
Microsoft Windows Installer Team

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[KailasJ]

The basic install looks ok. the full install is where I am seeing the
problem.
I tried some stuff like changing fonts etc.
Apprently fonts like Arial,MS Sans Serif show junk charactes.

if I use fonts like FixedSys/Terminal I see some japanese text however
looks like I cannot set the font size. I always see the same big font
japanese text!

the setup dialog title gets displayed. I guess it uses the system font
hence its ok.

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