Issue with applying plugin in non-English version of AE on non-English version of Windows

Question

Hi There,
I am encountering an issue related to my plugin and differing language versions of AE.  When I apply my plugin to a layer within a project opened in an English version of AE, everything behaves as expected.  However, when I apply the same plugin, in the same manner, on a non-English version of AE, I get an error message.  I am dealing with this debug process on Windows 8 in Spanish.  Here is the error I am receiving from the the Spanish version of CS6 on Windows8 (Spanish):
"After Effects error: no se pudo cargar el plugin "Debug.aex" (126).
( 48 :: 46 )
That basically says that the plugin could not be applied.  Is there any reason why I might get this error in the Spanish version and not receive it in the English version?  Do I need to setup VS2012 to build in release mode for it to work?  Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Arie

Answer 1

I did find this in the documentation, but am not sure if this is relevant.
LOCALIZATION
Thanks to the Unicode support added in CS4, localization is much less painful. For non- Unicode strings, such as in older function suites, we expect strings to be multi-byte encoded using the application's current locale. On Windows, you can use the WideCharToMultiByte() function, specifying CP_OEMCP as the first argument. On Mac OS, use the encoding returned by GetApplicationTextEncoding().
I do not care if the actual strings are in english even though the plugin is loaded in a non-English install of AE.  Do I still need to do what this part of the documentation is specifying?  Can anybody show me some examples of localization for plugins?
Thanks,
Arie