Microsoft KB Archive/194711

= X400: Characters with Diacritical Marks Are Not Encoded Properly =

Article ID: 194711

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 3.2

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This article was previously published under Q194711



SYMPTOMS
When you send a message that contains characters with diacritical marks through the Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, the characters with diacritical marks are not encoded properly.



RESOLUTION
A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft, but has not been fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   File Name      Version --  X400gate.exe   3.2.1 This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as X400gy2k.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/gateways-public/All-Y2K/



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 version 3.2.



MORE INFORMATION
The following diacritical marks are the most common:


 * Acute accent
 * Breve
 * Caret
 * Caron or hacek
 * Cedilla
 * Circumflex
 * Diaeresis or dieresis
 * Digraph or ligature
 * Edh or eth
 * Grave accent
 * Hungarian umlaut
 * Macron
 * Ogonek or Polish cedilla
 * Ring or volle
 * Tilde
 * Umlaut

For additional information about diacritical marks, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

98999 Diacritical Marks Described and Explained

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