Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/ Nisus Writer Pro 2.1.8 Agen G. N. Schmitz Nisus Software has released [1]Nisus Writer Pro 2.1.8 to fix a crash in macOS 10.13 High Sierra that occurred when saving or loading files that use certain fonts. The powerful word processor also eliminates a crash that could occur when visiting the Language preference pane (particularly after multiple visits), ensures that the Malayalam language uses left-to-right writing mode, and fixes issues with imported Japanese text that could be garbled by incorrect text encoding. [2]Nisus Writer Express 3.5.8 received the same fixes. ($79 new with a 25 percent discount for [3]TidBITS members from Nisus Software and the [4]Mac App Store, free update, 225 MB, [5]release notes, 10.8.5+) References 1. https://nisus.com/pro/ 2. https://nisus.com/Express/ 3. http://tidbits.com/member_benefits.html 4. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nisus-writer-pro/id454320900?mt=12&at=10l5PW 5. https://nisus.com/pro/releasenotes/releasenotes218.php .