# National Language Support

JReport products implement a National Language Support (NLS) feature, which allows reports to be run in different languages.

In JReport Designer, you can use the two editors to edit NLS for reports: Data Mapping Editor and NLS Editor. With the Data Mapping Editor, you can create data mapping files to map data values for resources in a catalog, and the target language information of the resources will be stored in the data mapping files. Using the NLS Editor, you can translate the language-dependent text in a report or library component and the current catalog to any language you want, and modify the format and font properties for objects in the catalog and for objects used in the report or library component. Then when the report or dashboard that contains the library component runs, JReport Engine retrieves the language-dependent information according to the current locale in order to make the report result match the locale setting.

NLS can also be edited on JReport Server. For detailed information, see National Language Support in the JReport Server User's Guide.

The following topics detail how to edit NLS at report level:

- NLS at application level
- NLS at report level

Note: NLS feature is not supported on shape map.