On 8 Sep 2012, at 09:25, Manfred Kropp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello Nisoids,
> still do have some documents written in Mac Arabic and Nisus 3 format.
> Importing them there is no Arabic text converted but gibberish of Latin letters.
> Does anyone know how to convert such documents in MacOS X (10.7.4) without Classic? )Before retyping them afresh)
> Thanks for every advice
> Manfred

One way to convert those files is to add the file extension .txt. Then in the Open dialog select the files with .txt extension and apply 'Arabic' from the list of text encodings from the Text Encoding drop-down menu.

Hamid