National Language Support (NLS) provides customization of software to enhance usability in a country or language. For Information Builders products, the most important part of NLS is the seamless interpretation of all national characters embedded in any data source.
A proprietary NLS API code page engine enables Information Builders products to work in all countries and for all languages. The main function of the NLS API is to manage the transcoding of data between client and server components, each of which may have different code pages. The NLS API also provides sorting, case conversion, and the formatting of dates, time, currency, and numbers based on the conventions of a locale.
Information Builders NLS API supports Unicode, a universal character encoding standard that assigns a code to every character and symbol in every language in the world. Unicode is the only encoding standard that ensures that you can retrieve or combine data using any combination of languages. The WebFOCUS Reporting Server supports a Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) called UTF-8 in ASCII environments and UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC environments.
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