It's not desktop versus mainframe, but rather a codepage issue. Some software on both PC and mainframes expects Hebrew in visual order. Any software supporting Unicode should process Hebrew text in logical order. But the OP did not say which codepage he is using.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Xmitip multi language characters problem On 2020-11-19, at 01:39:45, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > > The answer depends on what SMTP server you are running on z/OS. > Is it SMTP or CSSMTP. > Does either of these, or TXT2PDF, avoid problems resulting because (as I understand) z/OS stores Hebrew text backwards while desktop systems expect it forwards? Can they deal with CSSID 1208 files containing a mixture of such as Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם, Greek: γεια, Russian: Здравствуйте, ...? > For SMTP I think you need to have a file named TCPIPPFX.STANDARD.TCPXLBIN > with the correct translation table. > TCPIPPFX is defined in the DATASETPREFIX parameter in TCPDATA. > > For CSSMTP there is a parameter named CSSMTP_CODEPAGE_CONFIG. The value > should be IBM-424. > These is also a parameter call Charset which should be ISO8859-8. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Weizman arbel > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:10 AM > > I am working in israeli bank > And have a problem with > Hebrew characters > When i am sending email > By xmitip. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
