# Question on internationalisation: Can I have 1 json file for several nodes?

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**Category:** Developing Nodes
**Tags:** uibuilder
**Created:** [8 March 2023 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-on-internationalisation-can-i-have-1-json-file-for-several-nodes/76300 "2023-03-08T14:52:11Z")
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It is sort of possible, but not as elegant as perhaps you'd like.

A bit of terminology to help explain, apols if I'm telling you stuff you know, but for future readers of this thread....

In your `package.json` file, you have this:

```auto
  "node-red": {
    "version": ">=3",
    "nodes": {
      "uibuilder": "nodes/uibuilder.js",
      "uib-cache": "nodes/uib-cache.js",
      "uib-element": "nodes/uib-element/customNode.js",
      "uib-update": "nodes/uib-update/customNode.js",
      "uib-sender": "nodes/uib-sender.js",
      "uib-list": "nodes/uib-list/customNode.js"
    },

```

The keys of the `nodes` property are internally known as the `node-set` name. Each node-set can have its own message catalog.

There is no concept of a module-wide catalog, but you can look-up messages from any other catalog that node-red has loaded. You do that by prefixing the message identifier with the catalog name.

For example, you could put all your common messages in `uibuilder.json` and then any other node would be able to use `RED._("node-red-contrib-uibuilder/uibuilder:the.message.identifier")`

It _is_ a bit long winded to have to fully specify the catalog as well as the message id, but that's how you do it.

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