Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 484)

464 Glossary of Useful Terms
Nisus Writer Classic format decided what encoding to use based on the font you
applied. If your font is not available in the new System, Nisus Writer Pro tries to
guess. Sometimes it works, a lot of times it doesn’t. On OS X, fonts sometimes
don’t show up or work as they did in OS 9. This is the primary reason people see
garbage text when they try to open Classic files.
Unicode, on the other hand is much better. The number 65 always means capital
“A” for example no matter what. So your text is better preserved, and its is far
simpler for Nisus Writer Pro to deal with multilingual text.
UTF-16 A “Unicode Transformation Format” that uses 16 bits to hold the information
about the characters in your document.
UTF-8 A “Unicode Transformation Format” that uses 8 bits to hold the information about
the characters in your document.
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
Used to describe something where the content during editing appears very similar
to the final product.