Microsoft KB Archive/944980

= Forefront Server Security Management Console reports contain unreadable characters =

Article ID: 944980

Article Last Modified on 12/26/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario. You have a computer that is running a German version of Windows. You use Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console to configure report jobs. You schedule reports to be sent by e-mail to a specified list of recipients. In this scenario, the recipients receive reports that contain unreadable characters.

For example, the reports may contain unreadable characters that resemble the following:

Entfernte Ã¼1/4rmer, GelA¶scht



CAUSE
This issue occurs if the encoding in Windows Internet Explorer is set to Auto Select and to Eastern European (Windows).

Note These are default settings in the German version of Internet Explorer.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, change the default encoding in Internet Explorer to Unicode (UTF-8). To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Open Internet Explorer.
 * 2) On the View menu, point to Encoding, and then click Unicode (UTF-8).

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