Den 14. feb. 2011 kl. 13:02 skrev Erik Richard Sørensen:

> Hej Knut
> 
> Knut S. Vikør wrote:
>> Mariner Write didn't do Unicode or Arabic, so of no interest to me.
>> I do get Mariner ads through some non-filtered spams, but not
>> recently for Write, I think? But lack of Unicode would indicate
>> they are not working terribly hard on it. 
> 
> Sure MarinerWrite does Unicode, but if you don't use Unicode fonts, you will get problems. 

I am not sure what you mean by that. Just downloaded the latest version, 3.9.0, and to wit:

- The Arabic (Unicode) keyboard is greyed out and is not accessible.
- When I try to write a Unicode character, like any diacritic in US Extended, it instead inserts the character of that key in the corresponding non-Unicode US keyboard (try Option-t, it should give thorn in US Extended, but gives the old dagger we used to have under Option-t). 
- When I copy an Arabic, or other Unicode, text into MarinerWrite, it is converted to characters of the Mac character set (the old "high ASCII", punctuation marks); or to question marks. 

The font choice does not enter into it; whether I use OpenType, AAT, or what, the result is the same. (The Apple Arabic AAT fonts do not show up in the font list.)

All in all, it behaves exactly as if it ignores Unicode and only supports the old 8bit Macintosh character set. It is one of very few applications I can see today where not even the Arabic keyboard is accessible. Very very old.

Knut