These Eudora Tables enable you to send and read e-mail in Thai. They can be used with any version of Eudora. They convert (“transliterate”) between Macintosh Thai and other character sets used on the Internet, namely:
You need to install also Eudora Standard Tables, which are necessary for the Roman (West European Latin) script.
What to do?
(0) Quit Eudora if it’s open.
(1) Put the files Eudora Standard Tables and Eudora Thai Tables into the Preferences folder inside your System Folder or into your Eudora folder. Trash the file EudoraTables if you had it previously installed.
(2) Start Eudora and choose the menu “Special : Settings…”. Under “Sending Mail”, uncheck (i.e. disable) the options “Fix curly quotes” and “May use Quoted-Printable”. Under “Fonts & Display”, set the screen font to any MacThai font. Only if you exchange mail in different scripts, e.g. both West European and Thai, you have to switch fonts again in future.
(3) You can choose the applied conversion under the menu “Message : Change : Transliteration”. Those for incoming mail are written with “<–” and those for outgoing mail are written with “–>”.
• “MacThai”
Exchange mail with MacOS.
• “MacThai <–> ISO-8859-11”
Exchange mail with any system (MacOS, Unix, MS Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2). This should be your first choice for Thai. But see below under “Problems”.
• “MacThai <–> IBM874”
Exchange mail with MS-DOS or MS Windows. But see below under “Problems”.
(4) Define the conversions that you use most often (separately for incoming and outgoing mail) as default. To do so, hold down the shift key while you select it from the menu, once when a received message is open and once when an outgoing message is open. The default conversion is then outlined.
(5) If you ever want to remove these tables, deselect the default conversions first: Hold down the shift key and select once more. Otherwise, Eudora will misbehave afterwards.
For more information on how Eudora handles character sets, please refer to Appendix E of the Eudora Manual (info-mac/comm/inet/mail/eudora-docs-dm.hqx at any Sumex mirror).
Problems?
If you can’t read received mail, the reason is most probably a dumb mailer that can deal only with Latin-1 and always writes the header “charset=iso-8859-1” into the mail. When Eudora receives such a message, it automatically converts from ISO-Latin-1 to MacRoman although the text is indeed Thai. The result is a mess. In this case, try the conversions that are marked with an asterisk (*).
Ideally, the person who writes to you should use a mailer that
• either automatically sets the correct charset header;
• or allows to write “charset=iso-8859-11”, “charset=ibm874”, etc. into the mail headers manually, e.g. Pine or PC-Pine;
• or does not include a charset header at all.
Please write to Qualcomm <eudora-suggest@qualcomm.com> and suggest that they make such plug-ins (Eudora Tables) available for the Windows version as well!
