Is there anyone out there who has experience moving NW Classic (OS 9.2) files with Persian (or another non-Latin script) into NWP (OS 10.n)?

My old laptop, with which I had played around at doing this, and which I had set up so that both 9.2 and 10.n were running at the same time, won't start up (power plug issues).  I have a G4 tower with 2 HDs, one 9.2 and the other 10.5, but so far as I can tell, the only path from one to the other is rebooting.  The tower also doesn't seem to recognize the external firewire HD that I used to boot the laptop from.

I also have an iMac (10.6.8) and an Air (10.8.2), if there's any way anyone knows to chain them together.

I can continue to edit the Persian files on the 9.2 side of the G4 tower, and while it's nice to be able to keep the old overlines (instead of underlines), I think I need to get these files into OS 10 to be better able to edit them.  I can copy and paste the text within OS 9, but I don't know how to get these old font codes into unicode.

Hoping some of my old-timer acquaintances are still here!

Vika

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Vika Gardner, PhD
Allegheny College, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies