Characters displayed differently in inbox subject and in note

When I receive email that's encoded with UTF-8 that contains non-ascii
characters (in cyrillic, for example) the subject line appears correct
if viewing the email. However, in the inbox, the characters appear as
? marks. How do I get the subject characters in the inbox to appear
the same as the subject characters in the email?

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When I receive email that's encoded with UTF-8 that contains non-ascii
characters (in cyrillic, for example) the subject line appears correct
if viewing the email. However, in the inbox, the characters appear as
? marks. How do I get the subject characters in the inbox to appear
the same as the subject characters in the email?


While viewing the message in its own window click View | Encoding and select
UTF-8.

If the sender sends in Uuencode there is nothing to tell OE what character
set to use. If it's sent in MIME/None the encoding information is sent in
the headers.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
wrote in message
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When I receive email that's encoded with UTF-8 that contains non-ascii
characters (in cyrillic, for example) the subject line appears correct
if viewing the email. However, in the inbox, the characters appear as
? marks. How do I get the subject characters in the inbox to appear
the same as the subject characters in the email?


While viewing the message in its own window click View | Encoding and select
UTF-8.

If the sender sends in Uuencode there is nothing to tell OE what character
set to use. If it's sent in MIME/None the encoding information is sent in
the headers.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I was already using UTF-8 encoding in OE
when I made my previous post. The subject looks ok in the email, but
not in the inbox. When looking at these same emails in other email
clients the subject appears correct in the inbox and in the email.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
wrote in message
ps.com...
When I receive email that's encoded with UTF-8 that contains non-ascii
characters (in cyrillic, for example) the subject line appears correct
if viewing the email. However, in the inbox, the characters appear as
? marks. How do I get the subject characters in the inbox to appear
the same as the subject characters in the email?

While viewing the message in its own window click View | Encoding and
select
UTF-8.

If the sender sends in Uuencode there is nothing to tell OE what
character
set to use. If it's sent in MIME/None the encoding information is sent
in
the headers.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I was already using UTF-8 encoding in OE
when I made my previous post. The subject looks ok in the email, but
not in the inbox. When looking at these same emails in other email
clients the subject appears correct in the inbox and in the email.


I think you're saying that you see the question marks in the Message List
but not in the message itself. If that is the case, this is a bug that is
fixed in Vista's Windows Mail but not OE. I don't know when, if ever, it
will be fixed in OE. There was an update for OE in the last Windows Update
for WinXP SP2, but I don't know if there will be any more.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.