# National Language Support

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

When you design a report, you can create data mapping files for resources in a catalog, and the target language information of the resources will be stored in the data mapping files. JReport Designer provides an NLS Editor for you to translate the language-dependent text in the labels to any language you want and modify the format and font properties for objects used in a report as well. Then when the report is run, JReport Engine retrieves the language-dependent information according to the current locale in order to make the report result match the locale setting.

After publishing the report sets which contain NLS reports to JReport Enterprise Server, you can run or schedule the reports in the languages you have specified. What's more, you can also edit NLS for the text of report labels on JReport Enterprise Server Administration Page. For detailed information, see NLS at report set level in the JReport Enterprise Server User's Guide.

The following topics detail how to use the NLS feature in JReport Designer:

- Enabling/Disabling the NLS feature
- Editing NLS in JReport Designer
- Previewing a NLS report
- Localizing page navigation links in HTML report outputs