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 and the print font to any Roman (West European Latin) fonts, e.g. Monaco and Courier.
(3) You can choose the applied conversion under the menu “Message : Change : Transliteration”. Those for incoming messages are written with “<–” and those for outgoing messages 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. Avoid if possible.
• “MacRoman –> US-ASCII”
Send mail in 7-bit ASCII. Special letters (such as å ç é ñ ô ü) are sent without accents (a c e n o u).
• “Repair ISO-Latin-1”
Repair (i.e. restore) an incoming message that has been converted automatically but incorrectly from ISO-Latin-1 to MacRoman.
To choose no conversion at all, just select any conversion (“transliteration”) twice in succession. This is best for Mac-to-Mac communication.
(4) Define the conversions that you use most often (separately for incoming and outgoing messages) 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. Eudora applies the default incoming conversion only if an incoming message has no “charset” header.
(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/edr/eudora-docs-dm.hqx at any Info-Mac mirror) and to the Eudora Tables Emporium <http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/files/eudtab.html>.
