I would certainly want an editor to have reasonable handling of text direction, with the user firmly in control of how the editor behaves.
I refer to WYSIWYG as what you see is all you get (WYSIAYG), and hate it. It gives no clue as to what will happen if you make changes, while with a markup language everything is clear. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Transferring hebrew data from Db2 Z/OS to PC On 2018-01-08, at 23:17:18, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > I wonder how will it solve the Hebrew reading direction issue... On 2018-01-09, at 13:31:19, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I doubt that it will or should. Handling text direction and mixed direction > text is an application issue. It helps if you're using Unicode. > I deem an editor such an application. Don't you appreciate WYSIWYG? On 2018-01-09, at 13:53:29, Seymour J Metz wrote: > What is "the z/OS practice"? If it's anything but storing characters in > logical sequence rather than visual sequence then that's bad. > See Gadi, below. According to that, it's bad. > Why "עיברית קשה שפה"? It's certainly more regular than English. Although that > word order looks strange. > I don't know Hebrew. But I can use Google Translate. But that doesn't help if I don't know whether adjectives precede or follow nouns. Is it like Russian, eliding auxiliary verbs? What would be a fluent rendition? Google Translate tells me "עברית היא שפה קשה" (when I do some guessing; with cutting and pasting I get from Google, hyper-literally, "Hebrew she language difficult".) > On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 05:57:34 +0000, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > >> עיברית קשה שפה >> ... >> On z/OS, Hebrew is usually stored visually - the first letter in a word is >> on the right. >> On other platforms, including Windows, Hebrew is stored logically - the >> first letter is on the left, and programs reverse the data before it is >> displayed. -- 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
