mysterious Eudora keyboard incident

[Helen Halva]

I used to have Eudora but am now on Thunderbird.  I used the toggle 
(left shift/alt) routinely for Cyrillic in Word documents and the like, 
and I could get it to write in Cyrillic in my emails BUT the recipient 
just got gobbledygook when I sent the message.  I use the standard 
Cyrillic keyboard, the one Paul Gallagher described, not the student 
one.  The only time I could actually communicate in Cyrillic in Eudora 
email was in response to someone else whose Cyrillic came through to me 
in an email; then mine would echo whatever encoding they had, and it 
would look right both to me and to that sender/recipient.  Have no idea 
why. 
Good luck!
HH


ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
> Dear colleagues:
> See if you can figure this one out:
> Using Eudora I have never been able to do Cyrillic.  I can't even 
> paste a Russian text into
> a blank Eudora letterhead (or whatever the electronic version of an 
> empty message page is called).
> About an hour ago I accidently "tripped" my left hand on the lower 
> left keyboard.  I probably hit some
> peculiar combination of keys--including Ctrl and ???  I did NOT see 
> what I hit, but in the middle of a message
> I was typing I began to type Cyrillic.  I  have no idea what I did.  I 
> carefully hit all the keys in sequence, arranged
> analogue to the keyboard layout, so I could see the whole layout.  It 
> was definitely the full alphabet, but not the so-called
> student layout that I use in MS Word.    I suppose it was the standard 
> Russian but I wouldn't recognize it:  All I remember
> is that the Q key was a Y, and the lowest rightest key was Cyrillic B 
> (bee).
> I saved this, and then mailed it to myself, pasting in my address.  It 
> arrived unchanged, and I saved it in another mailbox.
> I also copied it to paste in a Word doc, just to see what would 
> happen.   What happened was that I got the perpetual
> hourglass, and had to do a shutdown of Word.  So it would not paste 
> into a Word doc.
> I then closed Eudora and re-opened it.  It no longer typed 
> Cyrillic--back to normal.   I then looked in the Out mailbox
> to see the message I had sent to myself, and it was missing, gone!!!   
> This has never happened.
> Then I went to the other mailbox where I had put the received 
> self-mailed message with the alphabet, and it was there,
> but all the Cyrillic letters had been replaced by the set of Latin 
> letters with assorted diacritics that is one of the things
> that shows up when other people send messages in Russian!
> So that is why I could not do a Cyrillic bee above--it's all gone as 
> mysteriously as it came, and I don't know how to get
> it back.
> Any thoughts on this?
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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