On 2020-11-19, at 06:58:36, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> 
> 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.
>  
I would expect that to someone literate in Hebrew
(as I am not) both "visual order" and "logical order"
would mean the same thing:
o "שָׁלוֹם" comes first (on the right) and
o "עֲלֵיכֶם" comes second (on the left).

ISPF Edit supports UTF-8 and with an IBM-424 terminal ...?

> ________________________________________
> From: Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:52 AM
> 
> 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, ...?

-- gil

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