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Chapter 30 National Language Support (NLS) The National Language Support (NLS) facility is an implementation of the single byte Internationalization specified in X/OPEN's CAE COBOL language. It provides an automatic means of adapting your program to the character code set, collating sequence, and editing symbols associated with a particular country, without the need for your application to know what these are in advance. This facility is also useful in English-speaking countries, for handling eight-bit character sets, collating upper- and lower-case letters correctly and selecting the appropriate currency symbol.