[HECnet] Arabic / Unicode support on VMS?

[Sampsa Laine]

On 18 Dec 2013, at 18:58, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:


I'd say it's safe to assume that VMS do not do any advanced stuff that you're looking for now, Sampsa. You might have a separate application that can understand all this, but VMS itself do not. In general, each byte is one character, and once output, it stays.

Any rendering of characters differently depending on position will either have to be done inside the terminal, or else by special software in VMS, which is not a part of any normal piece.

What a shame, mind you Microsoft Word couldn't figure this out until about 2007 and the Terminal.app on my Mac still can't join letters.