I don't know which Arabic code page they used for that terminal implementation (this was early-to-mid-1980's time frame). I didn't even know what a code page was in those days, because I never had to deal with them at all.
We were mainly a VM/VSE/SP shop with an OS/VS1 system available for testing. No ISPF at all. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 11:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". On 2017-03-13, at 09:36, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > From a software company I worked for many distant moons ago that also > invented a 3270-like "terminal" for sale to an Arabic company (actually it > was an 8-bit micro-processor device with two 8-inch floppy drives) I can > actually answer that question: > > FED345CBA > What code page? > Although Arabic word writing is right to left, numbers are written left to > right. Most disconcerting on a 3270-type device when typing out words and > numbers, the cursor suddenly stops moving as the numbers are pushed out in > the opposite direction from the text. > ISPF Edit/View now do a pretty good job of supporting Unicode; UTF-8; subject to teminal capability. (Buggy, but support works at it.) I wonder whether the terminals have kept up? > As I remember, the terminal implementation team's leader told me that the > trickiest part of that terminal emulation was getting the Arabic > letter-connector glyphs correct. Letter glyphs would literally change shape > as subsequent letters were typed, and change back again if you back-spaced > over a letter. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
