National Language Support files are used to convert code page information to Unicode.
Windows NT includes the following national language support files. For more information about national language support, code pages, and Unicode, see Appendix C, "International Considerations."
Table 4.10 National Language Support (.NLS) Files
Filename | Description |
BIG5.NLS | Sorting table for Chinese |
C_037.NLS | EBCDIC Latin1 |
C_10000.NLS | Macintosh Roman |
C_10001.NLS | Japanese MAC code page |
C_10006.NLS | Macintosh Greek 1 |
C_10007.NLS | Macintosh Cyrillic |
C_10029.NLS | Macintosh Slavic |
C_10079.NLS | Icelandic MAC code page |
C_10081.NLS | Turkish MAC code page |
C_1026.NLS | EBCDIC Latin 1/Turkish |
C_1250.NLS | Win 3.1 Eastern European |
C_1251.NLS | Win 3.1 Cyrillic |
C_1252.NLS | Win 3.1 US (ANSI) |
C_1253.NLS | Win 3.1 Greek |
C_1254.NLS | Win 3.1 Turkish |
C_437.NLS | MS-DOS U.S. |
C_500.NLS | EBCDIC Latin 1 |
C_737.NLS | Greek Primary code page |
C_850.NLS | MS-DOS Latin I |
C_852.NLS | MS-DOS Latin II |
C_855.NLS | IBM Russian |
C_857.NLS | IBM Turkish |
C_860.NLS | MS-DOS Portuguese |
C_61.NLS | MS-DOS Icelandic |
C_863.NLS | MS-DOS French Canadian |
C_865.NLS | MS-DOS Nordic |
C_866.NLS | MS-DOS "Russian" (former USSR) |
C_869.NLS | IBM Modern Greek |
C_875.NLS | EBCDIC Greek |
CTYPE.NLS | Character type 1 unicode translation data file (always installed) |
CTYPE1.NLS | Character type 1 Unicode translation data file (always installed) |
CTYPE2.NLS | Character type 2 Unicode translation file (always installed) |
CTYPE3.NLS | Character type 3 Unicode translation data file (always installed) |
KSC.NLS | Sorting table for Korean |
L_ELL.NLS | Greek casing table (upper and lowercase character tables) |
L_INTL.NLS | International casing table (upper and lowercase character tables) |
L_TRK.NLS | Turkish cashing table |
L_TRK.NLS | Turkish casing table (upper and lowercase character tables) |
LOCALE.NLS | Locale information for all locales (required for booting) |
LOCALE.NLS | Locale information for all locales (required for startup) |
SORTKEY.NLS | National Language Support sort keys |
SORTTBLS.NLS | National Language Support sort tables |
UNICODE.NLS | Unicode translation data file; required for startup |
XJIS.NLS | Sorting table for Japanese |