On 2017-03-13, at 09:36, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > From a software company I worked for many distant moons ago that also > invented a 3270-like "terminal" for sale to an Arabic company (actually it > was an 8-bit micro-processor device with two 8-inch floppy drives) I can > actually answer that question: > > FED345CBA > What code page?
> Although Arabic word writing is right to left, numbers are written left to > right. Most disconcerting on a 3270-type device when typing out words and > numbers, the cursor suddenly stops moving as the numbers are pushed out in > the opposite direction from the text. > ISPF Edit/View now do a pretty good job of supporting Unicode; UTF-8; subject to teminal capability. (Buggy, but support works at it.) I wonder whether the terminals have kept up? > As I remember, the terminal implementation team's leader told me that the > trickiest part of that terminal emulation was getting the Arabic > letter-connector glyphs correct. Letter glyphs would literally change shape > as subsequent letters were typed, and change back again if you back-spaced > over a letter. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
