Microsoft KB Archive/262369

= Chat Software Development Kit (SDK) Does Not Support DBCS =

Article ID: 262369

Article Last Modified on 11/26/2003

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Chat 1.0 Software Development Kit, when used with:  Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition

 Microsoft Windows 95

 Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0</li></ul> </li> Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition</li></ul>

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This article was previously published under Q262369

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IMPORTANT: Microsoft will no longer support Chat SDK after June 1, 2001. For more information on Product Support Discontinuance, see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/discontinue.asp?sd=gn

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SUMMARY
Microsoft Chat Software Development Kit (SDK) does not support double-byte character set (DBCS) systems.

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MORE INFORMATION
You cannot properly view DBCS Chat messages by using Microsoft Chat on a Microsoft Exchange server. The Chat client may receive a DBCS message, but the message is likely to be garbled and unrecognizable.

The Chat SDK does not provide support for DBCS characters. The SDK itself was designed strictly for English-only systems and will probably not run properly on non-English systems.

Microsoft Chat SDK is no longer a Microsoft supported product. Although the SDK may be included with some Microsoft products (such as Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5), all development on the Chat SDK has stopped.

Keywords: kbenv kbinfo KB262369

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