Visual Studio Setup

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MSI Databases and Code Pages

October 5, 2005 Oct 5, 2005 10/5/05
Heath Stewart
A Windows Installer database is full of strings. Most times those strings don't cause a problem when using the standard, printable characters found in all code pages. These are called ASCII characters and are the same for the first 7 bits (0x00 through 0x7F) for all code pages except for a few rare code pages in existence for legacy support. ...