If I type the document locally and upload it via Kermit, it sort of works. Unfortunately it doesn't keep the ligatures which makes it more or less useless for Arabic :) It would work for Hebrew though sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 28 Sep 2013, at 11:30, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: Yeah I was thinking of typing up some Arabic documents in say EDIT and using TYPE to view them - but Terminal.app doesn't seem to pass the Arabic letters across correctly. sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 28 Sep 2013, at 11:28, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2013-09-28 11:05, Sampsa Laine wrote: Is it possible to use say Arabic or Hebrew script on VMS - I don't mean for DCL of course but for editing text files etc. Or does this require DECWindows? What do you mean? Just displaying text, or are you looking for some software that actually would understand any of it. I mean, you could just use a different character encoding, and just output the bytes you want, and have your terminal show anything. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol