...using Win 7 Pro x64...

My Default input language is English (Canada).

However, when installing DraftSight the language alarmingly always starts up in Chinese!

I eventualy figured out that it has something to do with my system locale being set to Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan).

To install DraftSight in English, I have to first change my system locale to something English, reboot, then install DraftSight, then re-set my system locale back to Chinese, then reboot again.  (System locale won't update without rebooting.)

Besides being an mere annoyance with the added reboots everytime there is an update to DraftSight, it's a genuinely serious problem because any user trying to exit from the installation dialogue has to navigate 4 dialogue boxes blindly in an unfamilar language in order to exit the installation process. It seems equally possible to mess up an installation as it is to cleanly exit. Fortunately, I'm usually able to hit Esc during the first dialogue box. But if I miss it, then trying to exit from the second dialogue box is a crap shoot.

You may ask why I have my system locale set to Chinese if I can't read it. The main reason is that Skype won't show Chinese characters without this setting. They just show up as empty squares. I need to communicate on a daily basis with numerous Chinese language suppliers, colleagues and friends. Althought we usually communiucate in English, often I need them to translate words and phrases between English and Chinese. Not only Skype, but a number of web pages too won't show the Chinese characters with the system locale set to Chinese. Often, I need to navigate or translate these pages, which is simple enough to do with Google Translation.

But with the Chinese installation dialogue boxes in DraftSight, there is no way to copy the text to run through a translator.

The funny thing is, this installation language annoyance only happens with two programs: DraftSight and everything Apple (iTunes, QuickTime, etc.). Every other program of the dozens and dozens on my computer install in my DEFAULT LANGUAGE. Even SolidWorks. So it's clearly a unique problem of DraftSight (and Apple, which I don't care about, don't need their annoying programs anymore).

I would really appreciate if DS can fix this quirk. You can blame MicroSoft if you want for their language restrictions on Win 7 (vs. XP), but nearly every other program does not suffer from this problem.

Thanks...