About National Language Support
The National Language Support (NLS) functions permit applications to:
- Set the locale for the user
- Identify the language in which the user works
- Retrieve strings representing times, dates, and other information formatted correctly for the specified language and locale
NLS also includes support for keyboard layouts and language-specific fonts. For more information, see Input Method Manager and International Fonts and Text Display.
The following topics are covered in this section: