On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:36:38 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Re: “. . . extremely difficult, quite impractical to code COBOL UTF-8 strings
>on a 3278, perhaps on any terminal”, on a 327X terminal, yes, though
>“difficult” is perhaps too strong a term; I am sure our Hebrew friends here on
>this list do it every day on their properly set up 327X terminal emulators.
> ...
Sure. They set their emulator to CCSID 424:
Host: UTF-8 output: IBM424
0 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 144 160 176 192 208 224 240
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0
0 0 & - ° µ ^ { } \ 0
1 1 א י / ת a j ~ £ A J ÷ 1
2 2 ב ך ע b k s ¥ B K S 2
3 3 ג כ ף c l t · C L T 3
4 4 ד ל פ d m u © D M U 4
5 5 ה ם ץ e n v § E N V 5
6 6 ו מ צ f o w ¶ F O W 6
7 7 ז ן ק g p x ¼ G P X 7
8 8 ח נ ר ⇔ h q y ½ H Q Y 8
9 9 ט ס ש ` i r z ¾ I R Z 9
10 A ¢ ! ¦ : « [ ¹ ² ³
11 B . $ , # » ]
12 C < * % @ ‾
13 D ( ) _ ' ¸ ¨
14 E + ; > = ´
15 F | ¬ ? " ¤ ® ×
The problem arises when they want to view characters from multiple
locales, or don't know in advance which locale contains their data.
switching locale requires logoff/logon. Why?
Again, on my desktop, I can see:
Latin, русский, español, français, Ελληνικά, עִברִית.
3270 technology is generations behind the curve. IBM
doesn't care -- they have a captive customer base.
--
gil
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