Knut S. Vikør wrote: > Den 14. feb. 2011 kl. 13:02 skrev Erik Richard Sørensen: >> 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: Of course 3.9 and not 3.8.:-) > - 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. Hm, I can see the problems, but have you tried to use 'Arabic QWERTY' instead of the 'Arabic Extended'? - But no matter which keyboard I choose for any of the Semittic languages they are all chosable when MW is open here using OS X 10.5.8... It might also have something to do with the fonts chosen. I normally only use UTF-8 compatible .ttf or TT fonts containing both upper and lower ASCII. If I fx. copy & paste a Semittic text - Arabic, Hebrew, Iraq, Urdu or any other Semittic text, it's correct that most of the time it just become standard Mac characters, but then I just 'Select All' and choose one of my prefered .ttf/TT fonts for the specific language. - Most of what I get of that kind of text I get from Windows based computers still using the UTF-8, so maybe that's why I normally don't have any problems... OK, I can't read and understand the Arabic, but I can see, if the characters are the same as the source text, and most of the time it does show up correctly. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <[log in to unmask]> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~