Re: Any "Turkish EBCDIC" gurus out there?

Dear James,

Some years ago I was working for an organization,
which provided some of the second level support for
the Affirmative Twinax Yestations.

I looked at the technical reference manual for the
Yestation and found the following information
regarding your question.

"The terminal supports two character sets: national
(country-specific), or multinational. Code pages and
graphic character sets are used in accordance with the
language specified by the National keylayout
parameter. If the multinational character set is
specified, the common international character set is
used. Note that not all keyboard languages support
both country-specific and multinational character
sets."

The Yestation has to be able to generate all of the
characters you view on the screen internally. The off
line setup screen, which allows you to view all the
different characters for any National keylayout
selection, might not always correlate exactly to
published IBM character set documentation because as
far as I remember certain unique characteristics of
certain IBM terminal types emulated were maintained
rather than making the device type emulations of the
Yestation conform exactly to published public domain
IBM documentation.

It was many years ago now, but if I remember the
rationale for the product design decision referenced
above it was that exactly replicating what a certain
model of IBM display station really did in the field
was thought to be the best method for keeping support
calls to a minimum.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
--
Paul Tykodi
Principal Consultant
TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC
E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxxx

>date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:02:27 -0800
>from: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Any "Turkish EBCDIC" gurus out there?
>
>A potential new project involves translation of one
of >our products into Turkish. As luck would have it,
the 
>Affirmative Twinax Yestation we bought last year as a
>new console terminal happens to speak Turkish (and
>French, and German, and . . .)
>
>For language, it has 2 Turkish versions: "Turkish"
and 
>"New Turkish." The latter, which comes up as KBDTYPE 
>"TRB", appears to be a close match with an EBCDIC
Code 
>Page 1026 chart one of my colleagues found, but the
>former (which comes up as KBDTYPE "TKB") shows a very
>different code page, with (among other oddball
>characters he says aren't actually used in Turkish)
>H-strikeout (upper and lowercase), J with various
>diacriticals, and so forth, and lacking
>right-curly-brace and right-square-bracket.
>
>Anybody know what I'm looking at?
>
>And while I'm at it, any 5250 data stream or TN5250
>gurus out there who know how a terminal (or TN5250
>client) is supposed to tell the system its KBDTYPE?
>
>--
>James H. H. Lampert
>Village Idiot


        
                
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