Windows installer's language should default to the bundle's language

When you open a localized torbrowser-installer exe bundle, the installer's language combobox defaults to English, whatever the localization.

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To change defaults you need to change NSIS script during browser building instead of using statically fetched: https://github.com/moba/tbb-windows-installer/blob/master/torbrowser.nsi#L54

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English" ;first language is the default language

Just tested vanilla Firefox ESR installers. They doesn't allows to choose language, no any combobox, but installs using localization of bundle.

Set all open tickets without a severity to "Normal"

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#17514 (moved) is a duplicate.

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Keywords: needs-triage deleted, l10n added

See also #13469 (moved)—some of Tor Browser's supported localizations (e.g. Chinese, Farsi) are not even present in the installer combobox, apparently due to a font encoding issue. A few years ago when I was looking into it, I found that a newer version of NSIS (v3.0+) would be needed for Unicode support.

Replying to dcf:

See also #13469 (moved)—some of Tor Browser's supported localizations (e.g. Chinese, Farsi) are not even present in the installer combobox, apparently due to a font encoding issue. A few years ago when I was looking into it, I found that a newer version of NSIS (v3.0+) would be needed for Unicode support.

That's actually fixed in 8.0a9 which is using NSIS 3.

Replying to dcf:

When you open a localized torbrowser-installer exe bundle, the installer's language combobox defaults to English, whatever the localization. But en_US installer's combobox defaults to System (Current user's language in OS).

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Cc: arthurdelstein, emmapeel, StrangeCharm to arthuredelstein, emmapeel, StrangeCharm

mentioned in issue #17514 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tbb-windows-installer#11013 (moved)