InstallShield2009 Unicode Support - unicode

Our installation program is written using InstallShield2009, and as part of certification requirements we have to support Unicode throughout.
The application itself is .NET, so supports Unicode natively, however on testing our installation with a Chinese character set we can see problems thrown up by InstallShield dialogs.
Having done a quick google, I found one related post whereby someone has deemed there is no unicode support in IS2008.
I have also emailed Acresso directly, but being the caring developer I am, thought I'd post the question here for future reference, in case anyone else has the same problem.
If anyone has encountered this problem in the past, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Turns out that IS2009 does NOT fully support Unicode, as it cannot handle paths containing (amongst others) Japanese characters.

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Is there a way to disable spell/grammar check on Microsoft Word using their JavaScript API?

If not, is there a way to do that with either docx4j or Aspose?
I've stumbled across the question
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Reading Heroku help on enabling full text search in PostgreSQL I see that it doesn't support Hebrew by default. Does anyone know how to add support for Hebrew dictionary in PostgreSQL on Heroku?
I work on Heroku Postgres, and would like input on this matter from those able to vend it.
I'm looking into this but so far the waters have been murky as to how Hebrew is supported in many/any open source projects, including dedicated full text searching projects like Lucene or Xapian. There are full blown toolchains for dealing with this, but their integration with PostgreSQL is not yet existent as far as I know, e.g. hebstem, hspell and libhspell, HebMorph.
If someone knows of what the current state of the art is for this in Postgres, I can try to make it work on Heroku at a time of my discretion, depending on the precise details of that implementation that I have to review somewhat carefully.
As-is my attempts to locate an ispell dictionary have been questionable, as is the efficacy of ispell style dictionaries for Hebrew given the reportedly very different stemming rules.
Related work:
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GWT validation framework internationalization, wrong code page

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Tools for manual translation of Constants/Messages .properties files

I'm looking for some tools that could be used by human translators during the process of translating our GWT application into other languages.
Currently, we have the English version of .properties files containing constants and messages, and need create the files for other languages. This tool should be easy to use, so even non-IT-lover can master it.
Or, do you suggest other method for translation of the texts?
I heard the "community" approach becomes quite popular, by that I mean that one uploads his texts to some (?) forum, and the community there creates the translations into other language - but as I said, I don't know much about this
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