Re: Any "Turkish EBCDIC" gurus out there?

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/03/2005, at 4:02 AM, James H H Lampert wrote:

> 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?

Not sure for your specific case but keyboard type usually just means 
keyboard layout and handles physical differences in keyboards from the 
simple (e.g., a Pound Sterling symbol in place of a Dollar symbol) to 
the mildly different such as the French Azerty to the completely 
different such as Dvorak (which I think is not supported on OS/400).

> 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?

This is done during session negotiation (specifically by using the 
USERVAR format described in RFC 1572) in the same way as you specify 
the device type. See the TN5250 specification (don't have the RFC to 
hand).



Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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