installer Language of installer does not match display language

Steps to reproduce

Download https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/thank-you/dotnet-sdk-3.0.100-preview6-windows-x64-installer and install on a system with english display language being set but german region settings. This only happens since preview6.

Expected behavior

Language of installer should be english as that's what i have set as display language

Actual behavior

Language of installer seems to be german
Some texts seem to be missing

Environment data

OS Version: 10.0.18362 N/A Build 18362

Jun 13 '19 17:06 batzen

@johnbeisner

Jun 14 '19 15:06 livarcocc

@batzen "Microsoft .NET Core SDK 3.0.100 - preview6 (x86)" is an 'installation component' and my from understanding will not be localized. Reference: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/11398

Jun 14 '19 17:06 johnbeisner

@johnbeiser i did not request for it to be localized. This issue is about the fact that the installer ignores the currently set display language and uses the region setting instead. Previous previews either respected my settings or were not localized at all, don't know if localization is new in preview6.

Jun 14 '19 17:06 batzen

I have similar problem with daily .NET Core 3.0 SDK installer. It shows many things in Russian, but my Windows 10 is in English...

Jun 18 '19 00:06 tomrus88

Same with ASP.NET Core 3.0 Runtime (v3.0.1) - Windows Hosting Bundle Installer. If I see some system messages in German I always think that there may be something wrong.

Nov 28 '19 09:11 nooxnet

In my opinion, if the server admin choose to install the server in English it's because for he, it's better to work, troubleshoot, find answers for error messages in English instead of the local region. So a german admin choose to work with Windows Server in english, a brazilian admin choose to work with english too.. I'm from Brazil, i think that here i never saw a Windows Server running in brazilian or even portuguese. Always in english.

So i don't see a reason to use Region instead of Language by default... If the author lives in Germany and choose to use a English machine to work, why FORCE him to install something in germany?

Maybe could be an option to change the installation language by parameter (for example, i work with a english server, and my personal workstation is in portuguese, maybe one day i would like to debug/reproduce something in my workstation, so i would like to install an english .NET Core in my portuguese machine)..

Jan 07 '20 19:01 RomBrz

So i finally found out what's causing this. bal:UseUILanguages="yes" has to be added to BootstrapperApplicationRef in bundle.wxs. That way wix uses the users set UI language for the UI and not the region language. @johnbeisner @livarcocc @NikolaMilosavljevic @dleeapho

May 29 '20 20:05 batzen

@batzen sounds like this should be filed as a bug in wix, it is just wrong to display UI in the regional language.

Jun 21 '20 19:06 miloush

@miloush It's fixed in wix 4. The solution i proposed is the way to fix it while using wix 3. They didn't want to introduce such a "breaking" change in wix 3 so the default value for UseUiLanguages is false in wix 3.

Jun 21 '20 20:06 batzen

@wli3

Jun 22 '20 14:06 NikolaMilosavljevic

this is a loc issue, we should bump the priority. Although looks like the root cause is in wix. @joeloff could you look into it? But I think it should be fine in 6.0 timeframe

Jun 22 '20 22:06 wli3

It's a small fix i could provide through a PR for 5.0.

Jun 23 '20 05:06 batzen

We can change the installer without taking an update of wix? Could give us some guidance?

Jun 23 '20 21:06 wli3

We would have to update wix to, at least, version 3.11. I would do this in a PR but since there seems to be some "private" drop location (WixDownloadUrl) for the wix binaries i am not sure how to update in that case.

The change required, when using wix 3.11 (which was released in May 2017) is: In bundle.wxs replace <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.Foundation"> with <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.Foundation" bal:UseUILanguages="yes">.

Jun 24 '20 06:06 batzen

I'd suggest jumping to 3.11.2 - it has the latest security fixes

Jun 24 '20 16:06 joeloff

I have the same problem: I have English Windows 10, but the installer insists on running in German. Will running a VPN help?

Jul 18 '21 18:07 MichalLeonBorsuk

A VPN won't help as the installer uses the locale settings instead of the display language. If you change the number and datetime locale to english the installer should show up in english too.

Jul 18 '21 19:07 batzen

You can also override the displayed language by launching the bundle and passing "/lang 1033" or one of the other supported LCIDs.

Jul 18 '21 20:07 joeloff

To expand on joeloff's reply (thanks for the workaround!):

download the installer
open command prompt in the folder with installer
run dotnet-sdk-3.1.415-win-x64.exe /lang 1033, adjust version to your own.

Now installer will start with English UI.

Nov 16 '21 12:11 vcaraulean

As @vcaraulean says the /lang parameter works. Please add this info when executing dotnet-sdk-xxxx-yyy.exe /?

Dec 15 '21 10:12 m4ss1m0g

Guys, you are my heroes dotnet-sdk-6.0.402-win-x64.exe /lang 1033 talks English. Could someone update the output of dotnet-sdk-6.0.402-win-x64.exe /help - so that the ordinary user has a chance to learn about parameter lang 1033