Set a Default Language in InstallShield Setup.ini

When the response file (.iss) is created for the Install Shield setup.exe, the language settings are not getting captured. And the silent installation with the response, always installs the product with the default language which is English in the below screen.

To fix this and change the default language to some other language, the setup.ini file can be utilized.

Original Language Setting in Setup.ini
[Languages]
Default=0x0409
Supported=0x0804,0x0405,0x0406,0x0413,0x0409,0x040c,0x0407,0x0410,0x0412,0x0414,0x0419,0x040a,0x041d,0x041f
RequireExactLangMatch=0x0404,0x0804
RTLLangs=0x0401,0x040d

[0x0409]
0x0409=English (United States)
0x0411=Japanese
0x0401=Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
0x042d=Basque
0x0402=Bulgarian
0x0403=Catalan
0x0804=Chinese (PRC)
0x0404=Chinese (Taiwan)
0x041a=Croatian
0x0405=Czech
0x0406=Danish
0x0413=Dutch (Netherlands)
0x040b=Finnish
0x0c0c=French (Canada)
0x040c=French (France)
0x0407=German (Germany)
0x0408=Greek
0x040d=Hebrew
0x040e=Hungarian
0x0421=Indonesian
0x0410=Italian (Italy)
0x0412=Korean
0x0414=Norwegian (Bokmal)
0x0415=Polish
0x0416=Portuguese (Brazil)
0x0816=Portuguese (Portugal)
0x0418=Romanian
0x0419=Russian
0x0c1a=Serbian (Cyrillic)
0x041b=Slovak
0x0424=Slovenian
0x040a=Spanish (Traditional Sort)
0x041d=Swedish
0x041e=Thai
0x041f=Turkish

Modified Setup.ini for French

[Languages]

Default=0x040c

Supported=0x040c

RequireExactLangMatch=0x040c

RTLLangs=0x040c

[0x040c]

0x040c=French (France)

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