These Eudora Tables contain the necessary conversion (“transliteration”) tables for the Roman (West European Latin) script. You can use them to exchange mail containing special letters from West European languages. They can be used with any version of Eudora – alone or together with other Eudora Tables.
What to do?
(0) Quit Eudora if it’s open.
(1) Put the file Eudora Standard 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 “Fonts & Display”, set the screen font to any Roman (West European Latin) 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 “–>”.
• “MacRoman <–> ISO-Latin-1”
Exchange mail with any system (MacOS, Unix, MS Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2). This should be your first choice for the Roman (West European Latin) script.
• “MacRoman <–> IBM850”
Exchange mail with an insufficient MS-DOS or OS/2 that can’t handle ISO-Latin-1.
• “MacRoman –> US-ASCII”
Send mail in 7-bit ASCII.
• “Repair ISO-Latin-1”
Repair (i.e. restore) an incoming message that has been converted automatically but incorrectly from ISO-Latin-1 to MacRoman.
(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).
