Microsoft KB Archive/281745

= Subject with extended characters sent by OWA may not be readable by Eudora clients =

Article ID: 281745

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server

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This article was previously published under Q281745



Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure that you back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows registry



SYMPTOMS
Messages sent with Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Exchange 2000 through SMTP may not been readable by Eudora clients if the subject contains extended characters.



CAUSE
In Exchange 2000, messages with extended characters are encoded with UTF-8, by default. Because some clients on the Internet do not understand this encoding, a feature has been added, documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article, to instead use a regional character set.

273615 Mail clients that are not UTF-8 aware cannot view messages sent from Exchange 2000

The feature in Q273615 works for Netscape and Microsoft clients, but Eudora clients do not understand the regional character sets.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

301378 How to obtain the latest Exchange 2000 Server service pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

Component: DAV



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 1.



MORE INFORMATION
This fix adds the ability to use ISO-8859-1.

You can turn on this feature by adding the following registry value.

NOTE: You must also have the registry value that is documented in Q273615.

Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.  Click Start, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK. Stop the MSExchangeIS service. Stop the W3SVC service. Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type regedit, and then press ENTER.</li> Locate the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWEB\OWA

</li> On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. In Value Name, type UseISO8859-1. In Value data, type 1 .</li> Restart the MSExchangeIS service.</li> Restart the W3SVC service.</li></ol>

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