On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:09:33 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Not a criticism nor an answer to your question but just curiosity and >education: how would you use it? > >Sure, you could edit "user" files that were in Arabic characters, but all of >"basic" MVS (JCL, SYS1.PARMLIB, etc.) is all US-oriented EBCDIC, right? (Other >than, say, the programmer name field in the JOB statement and so forth.) > Is there an EBCDIC analogue of ISO8859-6 that would suffice? Perhaps IBM420 or IBM425? (But I can't find displayable maps of those.)
>Arabic generally reads right to left, correct? That's an added complication as >I am sure you and emulator writers know. (There are several other >complications that I am sure you are aware of, and that are too complex, and I >am too much of an amateur on, to mention.) > Desktop systems handle right-to-left much better than mainframes by storing such languages in logical order rather than display order. For example, this English sentence contains an Arabic quotation. Vary your window size and note how that text reflows: "لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱل". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
