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 known as bi-directional or "BiDi". The help text in my IBM Personal Communications session indicates that it supports BiDi for Arabic and Hebrew code pages. Iirc the IBM 370 introduced the MVCIN (move character inverse) instruction to facilitate support for BiDi. So support for BiDi goes back a long way. I have a feeling that the original support provided on 3270 displays for right-to-left languages was not BiDi -- it was uni-directional and probably only required a very simple change to the wiring or electronics to completely reverse the display. This support had its limitations because a lot of Arabic and Hebrew text has imbedded foreign (for example English) words or numbers which are read left-to-right. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
