Installation Tips

For non-Arabic Windows® systems, select Custom Installations for Personal Communications installation. Then select Arabic as your language to install the Arabic font files.

For Arabic Windows® systems, select Full Installation. Arabic font files will automatically be included.

To set up an Arabic workstation, do the following:
  1. Select 420 Arabic Speaking as the host code page in the Customize Communication panel.
  2. Select Arabic Speaking as the keyboard layout.
  3. In the Select Display Font panel, choose ARB3270 at the Automatic Sizing list box or at the Fixed size font selection.
  4. In the API Settings panel, select 1256 as the DDE/EHLLAPI PC code page.
  5. Choose Typing Arabic as the font in the Page Setup panel.
    Note:
    For Personal Communications for Windows® 95 you can also select ARB3270 for printers with drivers that allow bitmap fonts. For example, printing through PDT requires the IBM® Arabic 864 font to be available on the printer.
To set up for Numeric Swapping or Symmetric Swapping:
  1. Select Display Setup from the Edit → Preferences → Appearance pull-down list.
  2. Select Swapping from the list box at the left, where the settings for numerics and symmetric characters is displayed. Changes are immediately reflected on the active session.
    Note:
    Numeric Swapping is a 3270-only feature. This function will not be selectable if the session is an iSeries™ session.
The supported Arabic fonts are:
  • ARB3270, which is found in the PCSANSIA.FON, or MFIANSIA.FON. To use the MFIANSIA.FON:
    1. Rename the file PCSANSIA.FON to PCSANSIA.ORG.
    2. Copy MFIANSIA.FON to PCSANSIA.FON.
  • Typing Arabic, which is found in the file TYPEARB.TTF.
The Arabic font files are located on the installation image in the FONT subdirectory.