Understanding NLS Settings

How to:

You can use the Administration Console to configure National Language Support and enable the Dynamic Language Switch.

Separate message files exist for every national language that WebFOCUS supports. If you want to customize the set of characters used in your report output, you must select the code page for every language you use.

These settings do not carry over during updates. You must repeat this customization step for each new release that you install.

Procedure: How to Configure National Language Support

  1. In the Administration Console, on the Configuration tab, click NLS Settings. The NLS code page appears.
  2. Click the option for the operating system on which the WebFOCUS Client resides.

    The list adjusts to display the available code pages for the selected operating system.

  3. From the list, select a code page that configures the client for the correct display of report output in the browser.

    Tip: The language selected for the Client usually corresponds to the language selected for the Server from the Reporting Server Console.

    If the language chosen from the Reporting Server Console does not appear in the drop-down list in the Administration Console, click User Defined Code Page and type the number of the user-defined the code page.

    Use this option, for example, when the server adds support for a new code page that is not yet reflected in the client software.

    In the following sample configuration window, the administrator specified code page 437.



    Unicode (UTF-8) is available for the Windows, UNIX, or AS/400 operating systems.

  4. Click Save to store your NLS settings. The console will generate and update the client configuration file (nlscfg.err), found in drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS82\client\home\etc, with the CODE_PAGE setting. Note that if you click NLS Settings again, your new setting is highlighted as the active code page.
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