The text encoding menu is dimmed. If the ignore rich text format is checked off then it will be available. However, still some of the Arabic come out as gibberish and the format is lost. NWP 2 could convert by dropping the file with and without .txt extension on the application icon with the same results.

I have another question: How do you delete Classic applications. It seems they do not want to go into the trash and if some make it there I could not empty the trash and it says it is in use!!!

HA

On 9/8/12 6:34 AM, Hamid Haji wrote:
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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