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National Language Support (NLS) helps applications support the different language and locale-specific needs of users around the world. New Windows versions almost invariably include changes to NLS. This change affects collation and sorting and thus if there is a change to the NLS version, any database indexes that assist with the  sorting of string fields will need to be rebuilt (see this Microsoft article).

 

In reality this means that if you move your navigator_nxserver to a different version of Windows or you change the system locale, then the tables will need to have their indexes rebuilt.

 

The supplied NLS pack routine will update the tables and rebuild the indexes.

 

To update the tables.

 

1. Open the web interface to the server, navigate to the Alias page and make a note of the path to the alias.

2. Go to the Windows control panel, services and stop the navigator_nexus service.

3. On the SAME machine as the navigator_nexus service runs on, run the NLS pack application. This is called NLS_Pack.exe and by default is located in the same folder as the navigator_nxserver.exe.
 

 

4. Browse to the path noted in step 1.

5. Press the update tables button. Once done, simply restart the navigator_nexus service.