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Subject: Re: Language problem in Fritz 7

Author: Andy McFarland

Date: 18:07:41 11/28/03

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On November 28, 2003 at 15:43:41, Erik Robertsson wrote:

>There seems to be a problem with installing the latest Fritz 7 update.
>When I install it, it extracts new language files (located in Fritz7\Messages).
>The problem is that the english translation of frame.strings is in german.
>
>After failing I couple installations I downloaded a CAB-file viewer and tried
>extract the english language files manually. I then discovered that the english
>frame.strings in the setup actually is in german.
>
>What to do? Translate the program myself?
>
>After further investigation I figured out that the message files in the setup of
>the latest playchess.com free client is ok (i.e. the Fritz 8 playchess GUI), so
>I copied it from there into the Fritz 7 folder. After removing 4 new strings
>that apparently has been added after the latest Fritz 7 update, voila... I have
>a working english installation of Fritz 7.
>
>Anyway... I post this here to maybe help someone avoid this problem.
>
>Best regards
>/Erik

I had this problem.  Chessbase sent me the English file when I emailed
info@chessbase.com

Andy



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