National Language Support Files

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