It depends on the language and the context. I'm not conversant with Arabic, but Hebrew uses both, as does English.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: grep ascii files... On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:02:41 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: >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. > someone conversant with such languages has posted here that the spoken convention is low-to-high order: "four and twenty blackbirds." -- 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
