I am developing an application for the Japanese market. I deliver both a _mbcs and a _unicode version.

I was linking using the static library option. That approach resulted in English dialog control warning messages when values were out of range and English dialog titles for File > Open and File > Save (as reported by my Japanese testers).

I switched to using the shared library option. That approach caused major runtime errors (as reported by my Japanese testers):

a) Under WinNT 4, an alert shows up saying something
like "Could not find a divisor 6871 from
Dynamic Library MFC42u.DLL".

b) Under Win95, firstly, a blank alert shows up and
then, an error dialog follows saying something like
"CreateProcess Error Code 1157, one of liblary files
required to run this application could not be found".

c) Plus other weird behavior

So, I am between a rock and hard place.

Any suggestions?

Should I download Japanese mfc dlls from Microsoft (and where would that be?) and include them in the installation?