[Bug 34247] "Program Files" is not locale-specific

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Fri Jun 19 14:19:07 CDT 2015


https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34247

--- Comment #9 from Matteo Bruni <matteo.mystral at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #6)
> (In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #3)
> > > That means you're running in WoW64 mode. To create 32-bit prefix set env
> > > variable like this WINEARCH=win32 before creating new prefix.
> > 
> > This was indeed an issue but now the path is "C:\Program Files\GUILD WARS"
> > with LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8 instead of "C:\Programme\GUILD WARS".
> > 
> > 
> > > Does Windows create language-specific Program Files? I'm English and hence
> > > ignorant on the subject...
> > 
> > Widows XP 32 bit with a german localization does create C:\Programme on the
> > installation and will use it as default directory.
> 
> You sure you're looking at actual path and not on a display name as shown by
> Windows Explorer? Also I just tried on Japanese Windows 8.1 and it uses
> non-localized dir names, so it could as well be windows version specific.

At least looking at the OS versions I have here, the actual directory name is
non-localized since Vista, while it is localized on XP.

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