Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/17/2005 at 08:37 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Having worked at a company that had an Arabic contract a long tome >ago in a galaxy far, far away, I can tell you that Arabic numbers are >not "foreign" -- they have always read and printed thei

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-18 Thread Kelvin Hills
This dose not help you solve your problem but something I always see. I have seen many sites using Arabic on the mainframe and I always expect to see the same problem come up (and normally do) it's with two letters I think there called elle and phlam. Anyway, when put together they are one le

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/17/2005 at 03:47 AM, Phil King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Iirc the IBM 370 introduced the MVCIN (move character inverse) >instruction to facilitate support for BiDi. No, it was introduced earlier: MVCIN was an RPQ on the 360/65. With ECPS:VSE on the 4341, MVCIN b

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-17 Thread Sebastian Welton
>Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>I never thought about and am not sure right-to-left is >>supported on z/OS. Anyone care to enlighten me? > I'm currently doing the prepatory work to install zOS 1.6 with Arabic support and although zOS doesn't support right to left, the emulator does. There is quite a bit

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
w, but I would suppose it might have similar characteristics. Oh, and MVCIN first came with the 4300 processors, not 370. Peter -Original Message- From: Phil King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Host text file in Arabic

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-17 Thread Phil King
Peter Hunkeler wrote: >I never thought about and am not sure right-to-left is >supported on z/OS. Anyone care to enlighten me? I have no idea whether or not z/OS explicitly supports right-to-left languages. However there were 3270 displays that supported right-to-left languages -- the support is

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>My colleges has some Arabic text file in NT, and they would like to >see how is with the text orientation in a HOST Arabic text file. > >In this case , if we could use the FTP code conversion to convert an >NT text file to HOST Arabic text file. You might try "quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-420,pc

Re: Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-15 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Peter Hunkeler wrote: If someone can send a text file which contains Arabic text in 420 code page. What exactly do you need? Can't you create one with the help of iconv? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland ---

Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-15 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>If someone can send a text file which contains Arabic text in 420 >code page. What exactly do you need? Can't you create one with the help of iconv? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland ---

Host text file in Arabic

2005-06-13 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi If someone can send a text file which contains Arabic text in 420 code page. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the ar