We have an app developed using VC++ 6.0, MFC and US English.  A bizarre
problem has shown up in Australia.  Users of our app are reporting that some
of the app's dialogs are being displayed in German.  From the dialogs
affected (e.g. the 'Save changes to' dialog) the problem seems to be coming
out of a Microsoft dll and not our program (our program contains only
English).  Does anyone have any idea as to what is going on here?

Thanks,
Paul Weissler

Commdlg.dll contains the common dialogs (like the standard Open/Save/Save as
dialogs). If something is rotten there, all apps would show in german,
though. If it's only for your app this behaviour is exhibited, you might
well check everything that's included in the install. If you have 3:rd party
DLLs, they can be opened as resources, and you can check if there are any
strange german things inside...

Johan Rosengren
Responsable Informatique
PACTA S.A.

Paul Weissler a crit dans le message

Thanks for the reply.  We're reasonably sure the problem is not due to
anything we are distributing as our files contain no German.  Also, the
problem has only been reported on systems in Australia so far.  No user from
any other country has reported any trouble using the exact same version of
the program.  My best guess at the moment is some program in Australia is
distributing some German dll.  Though as you said, seems like it should be
showing up in other programs.  Unless ours is the only one using that
particular dll.

Paul Weissler

If it is the common dialogs dll that is replaced, it would seem extremely
unlikely that the australian users would not get odd results from other
apps. If you could get one user with this problem to cooperate, and it is
indeed the common file dialog you are using, you might want to check the
comdlg32.dll version, and even try to replace it.

If you have checked all the DLLs delivered in your install kit, and there
are no german resources, it would seem unlikely that it is your app making
this problem, right?

You should not only make sure that your RC-files does not contain german
resources, but the binaries as well, as you could have some resource
includes not being obvious. It seems like a good policy to always suspect
your own app as being the culprit until proven innocent...

Johan Rosengren
Responsable Informatique
PACTA S.A.