How to test my application in different windows locales on github actions?

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My application handles text files, midi files and zip archives. I have to ensure that my application works in the same way in various windows locales. For example, the zip archives created by my application should always use UTF-8 encoding no matter which language the user uses. Can I test my application in different windows locales on github actions?

[Krishanthapathum]

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[theory]

I have the same question. Tried installing language packs:

      - if: runner.os == 'Windows'
        name: Install Language Packs
        run: |
          Install-Language -Language en-US
          Install-Language -Language fr-FR
          Install-Language -Language de-DE
          Install-Language -Language it-IT

But the build fails with

The term 'Install-Language' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable

I assume this is because Install-Language requires admin access.

Ultimately what I need is locale support so that setlocale supports a short list of locales. FWIW the Ubuntu runner makes this easy with this command:

      - if: runner.os == 'Linux'
        name: Install Apt Packages
        run: sudo apt-get install -qq language-pack-fr language-pack-en language-pack-de language-pack-it

[oxygen-dioxide]

A related question on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77771097/how-does-one-install-and-test-windows-locales-in-support-of-set-locale-in-th

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[HinTak]

How do we re-open this? Found that we would like to have this functionality.