Hi,

I want to create SSRS Report in Arabic language in SQL Server 2008r2 version. Till now, I am able to translate numeric values into Arabic in SSRS however, unable to translate text data into Arabic in the report.

It would be helpful if anybody give me some pointers.

Thanks in advance.

Sneha

• Edited by SnehaButala 1 hour 19 minutes ago

Hi Sneha, 

According to your description, you want to create a report in Arabic language, right? 

In Reporting Services, data is retrieved from the original data source. Reporting Services does not convert or translate data into another language. In your scenario, if the report data source is English database, the data displayed in the report will be in English. Only date, numeric, currency and time can be converted to other languages format. So for your requirement, if you have Arabic source data, then you can create a report in Arabic. Otherwise, your requirement cannot be achieved. Please refer to link below to see how language is used in Reporting Services:

Solution Design Considerations for Multi-Lingual or Global Deployments (Reporting Services)

If you have any question, please feel free to ask. 

Regards, 
Shrek Li

You cant use Reporting Services as a translator. WHat you need to do is to store data in Arabic in your database using unicode fields ( nvarchar,nchar). Then in report use field in the dataset query and you will get Arabic data. You might have to change text direction to RTL to show them from right to left etc