Cannot see Hebrew characters in incoming mail
GB
I am not interested in sending messages through Eudora in Hebrew.
I was having problems with my OS crashing and two days ago used a program called PC Scan & Repair by Reimage to try and cure the OS crash problems - which by the way it does seem to have helped with.
A side effect of that repair were problems with my keyboard layout which I have corrected. The biggest problem I now have left over is that I no longer see Hebrew characters in incoming message headers and the body of Eudora emails. Everything appears as jumbled special characters and written in left to right not right to left as Hebrew is written in. When I open the messages the Subject line is actually in Hebrew characters and reading correctly from right to left. Several years ago I recollect seeing a fix for this problem which required using specific Regional and Language Options in Control Panel. I used that method then [no Eudora special character files or sets needed] but cannot now remember exactly what the sequence was. Can anyone help? I use the Subject field to decide whether to open the original email in Gmail. It is frustrating not to now have that option. Reimage say they do not deal with proprietary software issues, although I believe this is an OS issue. Can this issue be connected to which Code Page conversions are checked?
micky
>I am using Eudora 7.1.0.9 under Windows XP-SP3.
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>I am not interested in sending messages through Eudora in Hebrew.
>
>I was having problems with my OS crashing and two days ago used a program called PC Scan & Repair by Reimage to try and cure the OS crash problems - which by the way it does seem to have helped with.
>
>A side effect of that repair were problems with my keyboard layout which I have corrected. The biggest problem I now have left over is that I no longer see Hebrew characters in incoming message headers and the body of Eudora emails. Everything appears as jumbled special characters and written in left to right not right to left as Hebrew is written in. When I open the messages the Subject line is actually in Hebrew characters and reading correctly from right to left. Several years ago I recollect seeing a fix for this problem which required using specific Regional and Language Options in Control Panel. I used that method then [no Eudora special character files or sets needed] but cannot now remember exactly what the sequence was. Can anyone help?
Well, you helped me more than I can help you.
I can't remember when I read the last conversation about this on this
newsgroup, but iirc the answer then was, "You can't do it" or maybe
just "We don't know how". . It seems like that was less than a year
ago, but maybe it was more than 3, when I still had win98SE. Still,
others had XP then, and yet the answer was at least, We don't know
how"
It was so embarrassing to tell people that Eudora couldn't read
Hebrew, andthat, ugh, Outlook Express and Outlook did. That I would
retrieve the emails with OE and attempt to read them there (My Hebrew
is not very good, although I can tell when the email is in Hebrew!!)
Anyhow, I followed the very instructions you outline above, and they
worked fine***. Now I can tell the same group of people that Eudora
reads Hebrew.
***It took me a long time to reply because my SP3 CD was not handy.
I can also "Send to browser" to read it, and I don't know whether I
tried that before, or if it works now only because it works in Eudora
proper now. ??
> I use the Subject field to decide whether to open the original email in Gmail.
Everything came out in Hebrew, including the Subject Header, but NOT
the Subject in the table of contents or the subject field at the top
of the View Email frame. Instead it's that set of vowels with
diacritical marks, that used to be the entire email.
BTW, for a while I thought I should make a list of what each of those
symbols mean, as in ������ ��-�: �����, then learn to read Hebrew
with them. But I never got around to that. I should probably study
vocabulary instead anyhow.
>It is frustrating not to now have that option. Reimage say they do not deal with proprietary software issues, although I believe this is an OS issue. Can this issue be connected to which Code Page conversions are checked?
Does Eudora even have code pages? I did try fiddling with code
pages and ISOs to try to get Hebrew in Forte Agent, I don't think I
succeeded, but it was hard to tell since I was in an English language
ng. I should have gone to an Israeli newsgroup, but didn't think of
it, and now I'm using a different computer which has nothing but Agent
defaults. But anyhow, here's a ng that probably has Hebrew,
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.il.office , at least it has a lot of
question marks.
Meir
Remove NONONO to reply.
P&M becaue it's been a week.
micky
<wlf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:37:44 -0700 (PDT), GB <gab...@gmail.com>
>declaimed the following in comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows:
>
>> A side effect of that repair were problems with my keyboard layout which I have corrected. The biggest problem I now have left over is that I no longer see Hebrew characters in incoming message headers and the body of Eudora emails. Everything appears as jumbled special characters and written in left to right not right to left as Hebrew is written in. When I open the messages the Subject line is actually in Hebrew characters and reading correctly from right to left. Several years ago I recollect seeing a fix for this problem which required using specific Regional and Language Options in Control Panel. I used that method then [no Eudora special character files or sets needed] but cannot now remember exactly what the sequence was. Can anyone help? I use the Subject field to decide whether to open the original email in Gmail. It is frustrating not to now have that option. Reimage say they do not deal with proprietary software issues, although I believe this is an OS issue. Can this
>> issue be connected to which Code Page conversions are checked?
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> Well -- it is ghosted out in my user account, so I may not have the
>option available at all, or just needs to be admin to set... But on my
>XP machine the "languages" tab in the control panel application you
>mention DOES have
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>"Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages"
Yes, exactly. That's what I used, after you pointed it out here.
Since it defaulted to an 386i directory, I figured that meant it
wasnt ed an XP installation CD, or maybe it said it wanted SP3. I
was using XP.
Thanks for your help. .
BTW, I got an email in Hebrew just a couple days after I first read
your post -- I get one from every couple months I think. That also
encouraged me to make this work.
And the email is right-justified too.
Meir
> In Eudora, you may or may not need to select the option to "Use
>Microsoft's Viewer" (ie: internet explorer rendering engine).