asian chars garbled in subject when exporting

[yoman]

hi, i saw this question in different places, but still havent found an
answer to it, so here is it again:

i am running outlook2003 on a highly multilanguage english windows xp (can
read/write chinese/korean/japanese)

in my outlook2003, i have all possible different encondings, and they all
look fine as long as they stay inside it.

But, if i try to export to outlook express, or move items to a imap account
inside outlook itself, the subject of these mails result garbled for all
endodings but ansi and utf8 (gb2312 is garbled, shift-jis is garbled), while
the body is fine.

is outlook trying to convert the header in wrong format while exporting?
any workaround? i have 3gb of old email, and i am stock with it until i can
export some...
thanks!

 

[Pat Willener]

I have never tried to export messages (also being in a multilingual
Unicode environment), so I don't know what happens to multibyte
characters when exported.

However, I am wondering *why* you are trying to export to Outlook
Express? Wouldn't it be easier to just archive your old mail to an
archive PST file, which can then be accessed by your Outlook 2003?

 

[yoman]

My original goal was to switch to thunderbird, but it failed because of the
garbled subjest problem.
Then i tried to move my mail archive to online archive using IMAP, same
problem.
I then tested outlookexpress, not because i like it, but because it's also
by Microsoft, i wanted to see if those 2 systems were better talking to
eachother. but i just got the same result as the other above.
So i guessed it's something wrong with outlook itself.

The reason why i posted the outlookexpress example to this forum (and not
thunderbird) is because i want to keep the focus to my problem, i didnt want
people to answer me that thunderbird is not outlook compatible or whatever.

thanks for helping