Does z/OS not comply with Unicode bidi rules for code page 1208? For older code pages, IBM doesn't really have a choice but the use the original text order; I'd expect the same issue on old PC code pages.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:54:38 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >Businesses with local customers and employees want to make things comfortable >and convenient for them. Some of those customers and employees may not even >know the Roman alphabet. Yes, if they have foreign customers then their >correspondence may use other scripts, but those customers would not normally >be dealing with local files and would not normally be concerned with their >names. Transliterations are often dicey at best. > Yes. Kudos to ISPF 3.17. II have created a file containing Cyrillic characters; tagged it as UTF-8 (IBM-1208): <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=descriptions-chtag-change-file-tag-information>; set my X3270 to IBM-880; and the characters automatically display properly. Alas, only basefiles can be tagged, not directories. Tagging directories should be an RFE candidate so directory listings could be displayed properly. My sample directory listing, on a desktop: 789 $ ls -alR ./Hebrew: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 paulgilm wheel 96 Jan 27 08:43 . drwxr-xr-x 5 paulgilm wheel 160 Jan 27 13:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm wheel 29 Jan 27 08:43 שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם 790 $ One potential problem: I'd expect not only the names but also the content of the OP's files to be Hebrew. But z/OS expects Hebrew text to be stored backwards. Will this cause problems? -- 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
