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InstallShield 2009: detect system CSV separator and update INI value

OK as you may know the CSV separator in French is not , it's ;. We need to deploy an application to both French and English systems.

What I would like to do is that InstallShield would detect the system CSV separator and then save this value in an INI installed with the application (I know, INIs are outdated by the registry a long time ago, but it's the design we opted for).

Is it possible to do that with InstallShield 2009? I can't find anything for this value in the help file for special property values...

EDIT: Since it might be unclear, take in consideration this INI structure:

[settings]
separator=,

I want the separator value to be dynamically set at the time of installtion by InstallShield himself (based on the system settings). I know some "special values" in InstallShield like [INSTALLDIR] but I'm not sure theres one for the system CSV separator (you know the CSV separator is part of the locale settings in all Windows versions since many years).

Solution

  • I ended up reading the registry key

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\sList

    and saving that value to my INI file.