Will Pages under Lion be able to open old AppleWorks documents in the way that it does under Snow Leopard?

I've just read a thread  that suggested that Pages will be able to open AppleWorks documents under Lion,  is this correct?
I understood from discussions last month that one had to convert all  old AppleWorks documents to Pages or Word or some other format BEFORE upgrading to Lion as Pages would not be able to read them afterwards.
I wanted to pass on a tip that if you have used the AppleWorks password protect on your files, you will not be able to open them in Pages, so you need to open them in AppleWorks first, and take the password off, or save them as a file which is not protected, or some similar work around.

The Apple Support Community (us) just calmed me right down!  Hi everyone.  I just down loaded Lion through the Apple Apps Store and blindly went ahead and installed it, putting my mental well being in Apple's hands, having trusted Apple since my first Apple II (1974?).  But ... "What do you mean, Appleworks isn't supported?"  In a bit of a panic, wondering what was to happen to my vast (really) stock of AW documents I came to Apple Support for help.  Thanks to the input from Sue, Cornelius, Jonanna and others I took the leap and, clicking on the "OpenApple"-I, accessed the "Open With" switching the AW document to open with Pages. In a word, perfect. And, it looks like Lion has already told itself to open all AW (remember Claris?) documents with Pages.   CM
( Except I just spotted a thread titled "AppleWorks doc won't open in Pages" ... Going there next. )

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