On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:02:48 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > >> Yes. Kudos to ISPF 3.17. II have created a file containing Cyrillic >> characters; tagged it as >> UTF-8 (IBM-1208): >> <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=descriptions-chtag-change-file-tag-information>; >> set my X3270 to IBM-880; and the characters automatically display properly. > >Did you have to change terminal settings to see the names in cyrillic? > No problem to "see" them. My desktop was UTF-8. I didn't type them; I generated an IBM-880 matrix with an awk script.
>Well... >Let's assume the following case: >/UNdirectory: >drwxr-xr-x 5 paulgilm wheel 160 Jan 27 13:50 Hebrew_name >drwxr-xr-x 5 paulgilm wheel 160 Jan 27 13:50 Russian_name >drwxr-xr-x 5 paulgilm wheel 160 Jan 27 13:50 Berber_name >drwxr-xr-x 5 paulgilm wheel 160 Jan 27 13:50 Greek_name > >Which names will be properly displayed at a time? > 517 $ ls -altr total 32 drwxr-xr-x 4 paulgilm wheel 128 Jan 29 15:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm wheel 29 Jan 29 15:22 נַפְתָּלִי בֶּנֶט -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm wheel 29 Jan 29 15:24 Владимир Путин -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm wheel 29 Jan 29 15:28 عبدالحميد محمد الدبيبة -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm wheel 29 Jan 29 15:30 Κατερίνα Σακελλαροπούλου drwxr-xr-x 6 paulgilm wheel 192 Jan 29 15:31 . 518 $ I'll leave it to four experts to judge. I copied/pasted strings from web pages. No special manipulations except quoting with apostrophes. They sound plausible with Speech output. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
