Outlook and Cyrillic

[Anna K.]

I have recently upgraded from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 (English
version). Before the upgrade when I received a message in Russian without
Content-type line in the message header specifying which code page to use I
would go to the menu and select a correct encoding (usually Cyrillic
(Windows)) and I was able to see the message.

After the upgrade this does not work anymore. But the messages with code
page setup are shown OK (newly received messages and the old messages I read
using Outlook 2000 setting the correct encoding).

Is this an Outlook "feature" or there is something wrong with the setup?

Thank you.

 

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Hello!

I have recently upgraded from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 (English
version). Before the upgrade when I received a message in Russian without
Content-type line in the message header specifying which code page to use I
would go to the menu and select a correct encoding (usually Cyrillic
(Windows)) and I was able to see the message.

After the upgrade this does not work anymore. But the messages with code
page setup are shown OK (newly received messages and the old messages I read
using Outlook 2000 setting the correct encoding).

Is this an Outlook "feature" or there is something wrong with the setup?

Thank you.

It is a 'feature' (i.e. newer Outlook is less flexible), but I guess
you described the situation not completely correct:
- if encoding is not specified at all then Outlook 2002/2003
will be able to show you the e-mail when you manually choose
needed encoding
- but - and here is thwew it's different from Outlook 2000 -
if the encoding specified in e-mail is *wrong* (say Russian
e-mail was sent from Yahoo!Mail where all messages are marked
as charset=iso-8859-1) then Outlook 2002/2003 does not let you
do use manual work-around.

Please see some solutions (macros) that I saw in Newsgroups -
"Russian in MS Outlook":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/cyr_o2k.htm