Re:

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The last time I dealt with the Arabic character set and english character
set was when PS2's were a new thing and 90mhz were the fastest out there.
And that was on a PC.  

But I think I can come up with a few ideas.

> how to set my keyboard to key in arabic data.
No idea on that one.  If it's anything like Japanese, however, there are some
programs you can buy to switch between typing in Japanese and typing in English
with a few key presses/mouse clicks.  No idea how the AS/400 would deal with 
this,
though.

> how to create a physical file which should contain some fields in arabic
> and some fields in english.
Is Arabic a DBCS?  DBCS being a Double Byte Character Set.  The Latin characters
(English) are stored in a single byte.  Some Languages (Japanese, Chinese) 
require
2 bytes to store characters, just because there are so many different ones.  
Anyway...
if you are going to have a file where you need to store both English and Arabic
text strings, it shouldn't be too difficult, as you are simply saving the bytes.
Your difficulty is going to be translating them for display.  

> how to transfer arabic data from pc to as400 and viceversa.
The question is, what are you going to do with them on the PC?  Your biggest 
problem,
I think, is since you have both english and arabic data in your file, when you 
transmit
the file the AS/400 is going to want to translate from one CCSID to another.  
With a
standard US setup this would be from the AS/400 format (EPSIEC?  EPISODIC?) to 
the PC
format (ASCII).  This would, obviously, translate your Arabic character set 
wrong.  

I think your best option is to give no translation and have the data come over 
byte
for byte, then convert it on the PC side.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

> Raja_Nama wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am working on a project which deals with the PF on AS400 having both
> arabic as well as english data.
> 
> I need some information on
> 
> how to set my keyboard to key in arabic data.
> how to create a physical file which should contain some fields in arabic
> and some fields in english.
> how to transfer arabic data from pc to as400 and viceversa.
> 
> Thanx in advance
> 
> regards
> raja
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