page_title: Globalizing Reports for different Cultures
description: "Learn how the Reports and individual Report Items are globalized, which properties depend on the selected culture and how the Culture is inherited across the Report and its Items."
Areport is globalizedwith the help of a [System.Globalization.CultureInfo](http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.aspx) object. You can specify a Culture for the entire [Telerik.Reporting.Report](/api/Telerik.Reporting.Report) by setting its [Telerik.Reporting.Report.Culture](/api/Telerik.Reporting.Report#Telerik_Reporting_Report_Culture) property. This will force all [Telerik.Reporting.TextBox](/api/Telerik.Reporting.TextBox) items to respect the assigned Culture. But you are not limited by one culture per report. You can mix an unlimited number of cultures, by setting the [Telerik.Reporting.TextItemBase.Culture](/api/Telerik.Reporting.TextItemBase#Telerik_Reporting_TextItemBase_Culture) property of a specific [Telerik.Reporting.TextBox](/api/Telerik.Reporting.TextBox). This will override the Report's Culture.
When determining what Culture to use for formatting strings and text direction, the rendering engine will inspect thethoseobjects in the following order:
>tip The Culture of the CurrentThread is determined by the Regional Settings of the machine the application is running on. (Control Panel->Regional Settings->Regional Options->Standards And Formats)
Culture affects the way strings are formatted in Telerik Reporting. For example, if you set the British Culture (en-GB) for a TextBox and set its [Telerik.Reporting.Processing.TextItemBase.Format](/api/Telerik.Reporting.Processing.TextItemBase#Telerik_Reporting_Processing_TextItemBase_Format) to Currency ({0:C2}) you will see values like: £43.21. Same applies for dates, times and numbers.
Middle Eastern languages such as Hebrew and Arabic are generally written from right to left. If your TextBoxwill contain text written using a RTL script, then you simply need to specify the appropriate Culture, for example "he" for Hebrew and "ar" for Arabic.
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