This 404 page seems to be gone. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/7osui7/amazing_404_page_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy/ On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 9:14 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sigh: > > IBM > Oops — that's not right! > Sorry, unless you really were hoping to find our 404 message, the page you > were looking > for has been moved or deleted > > (https://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/globalization/codepages.html) > > Cute upside-down 8-bar logo if you find that sort of thing amusing. I would > suspect the TM lawyers would not be amused. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Emulator supporting arabic > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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