Diacritics for email, but off topic--extended ANSI (?) character set in Eudora 5.1

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

Dear XY Folks,
    This is not XY (and thus not for this list), but a Eudora one.
However, perhaps someone could privately give me some clue regarding how
figure out what to do in order to get incoming email with foreign
characters (e.g., French accents) to show correctly on the monitor and
print correctly. I am using Eudora 5.1 in Windows 98 on a Pentium III with
128 Megs of RAM.
    It looks like some sort of extended (ASCII, ANSI ??) characters
are being misread, but I can't figure out anywhere to go to check it out,
let alone fix it ! I assume the problem is with some Windows setting, but
can't find anything relevant in either Windows or Eudora help files or
settings.
    Often, maybe always (I can't remember) it shows foreign characters
(like, French stuff that has accents) as wrong letters. For example, the
acute accented initial "e" of the French "electronique" is shown on my
screen in Eudora as a backward capital N. The "e" with the grave accent
(as in seches) shows as a capital X (cf. Greek Chi--also Cyrillic ?). The
"c" with the cedilla hanging down in "francaise" is shown as a capital
Cyrillic (or Greek ?) "C" (vertical line on the left side, with a
horizontal cross bar going right from the top). An "a" with a grave accent
is shown as a Cyrillic "ju" character (like a Roman '"H", but with an O
instead of a I as the right side). And so forth. It does look as if I am
getting Cyrilic characters (in particular, rather than Greek ?) instead of
the French ones that were sent.
    It printed on my laser printer with the Cyrillic characters, as
shown on my screen.
    BUT (!!), if I "send again" the message, it appears (now as an
outgoing message) fine on my screen, with all the proper French characters !

    I have (naively) presumed it to be perhaps some sort of ASCII/ANSI
problem--that, or some font interaction problem--but I have tried a variety
of fonts; I am currently using Ariel, but have also use Times New Roman a
lot. It feels like some sort of settings problem (in Windows or Eudora ?),
but (as I said) I have been unable to find anything. The fact that the
outgoing "send again" copy shows OK, suggests that the codes are intact and
that the setting problem is perhaps in Eudora (or how Windows sets up
Eudora --or mail stuff in general ?). But ...

    I will be very grateful to anyone who can point me in the right
direction.


                Thanks much,
                    David


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