Typing Direction; Bilingual Keyboard Mode; Numeric Lock; Insert Mode - HP T5145 - Thin Client - Tower User Manual

IBM 3270 Display Emulation

Typing Direction

Bilingual Keyboard
Mode

Numeric Lock

Insert Mode

Display Direction

Cursor Position

162 The Status Line
The keyboard can be unlocked and the indicator removed by press-
ing the Reset key.
Indicates the direction in which characters are
displayed on the screen when typed. The direction is
toggled between left-to-right (normal) and right-to-left
by pressing the keys Shift + / on the keypad.
Indicates whether the National (N) or Latin (L)
character set is active when a code page that supports a
bilingual keyboard is selected. Pressing the keys Shift
+ - on the keypad will toggle between the two character
sets.
Indicates that the numeric lock function is enabled and
the current cursor is in a numeric field. When the
numeric lock function is on, the current cursor is in an
unprotected field and the keyboard is in lowercase shift, you can
only use the 0 to 9, decimal sign (.), minus (-), and Dup keys.
Indicates that the keyboard is in Insert mode. Existing
characters to the right of the cursor will move to make
room for new characters that are entered. Insert mode
can be disabled by pressing the Reset or SysReq key, or by perform-
ing any action that sends data to the host, such as pressing the Enter,
Clear, PA, or PF keys.
Indicates the orientation of the screen display. A right
arrow indicates normal left-to-right display, a left
arrow indicates a right-to-left mirror image display.
The display can be toggled between the two directions
by pressing the keys Shift + Backspace.
Indicates the row and column position of the text
cursor.