Re: “When typing Hebrew or Arabic text on a 3270, does tne cursor move right-to-left?”, I can testify that yes it does. Quite remarkable when you first see it, but then for numeric fields it moves left to right, just like non-Arabic/Hebrew screens. And while typing non-numeric characters, the characters you already typed can change as you type other characters, according to the language rules.
An ISV I worked for in the early 1980’s had Aramco as a client and supported Arabic 3270 screens. WRT regex for R-to-L language handedness, I believe that UTF-8 character storage is left-to-right regardless of the external presentation order, thus so as long as the regex algorithm handles UTF-8 it should Just Work (tm). Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 10:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: grep ascii files... On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:24:02 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >Gil - no need to insult. > Understood. I felt I that I was lighthearted, in the spirit of Kirk's suggestion, after I checked that he did append a smiley to his arrant pedantry. More seriously, suppose the pattern isn't EBCDIC? I'm imagining Hebrew in UTF-8. How do regular expessions play with R-to-L text? When typing Hebrew or Arabic text on a 3270, does tne cursor move right-to-left? >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 8:22 AM > >On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:36:15 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >>Behold the power of Unix pipelines: >> >>$ iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 myasciifile | grep MATCH >> >>iconv is not "first converting" the the whole file to EBCDIC since both >>iconv and grep run at the same time :-) >> >OK, smartass. How about "grep -r". -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
