Problem: localized (cyrillic) characters in contacts and tasks

[Ralf Kiehl]

Hello everyone,

I hope this question isn't a FAQ. If so, please bear with
me.

A colleague of mine is trying without success to create
contacts and tasks wich cyrillic characters.
Mail with cyrillic characters in the sender's address or
in the subject line isn't displayed propperly either.
Writing and reading mail with cyrillic characters is
working without problems.

He's working with Outlook 2002 (office XP) SP 2 on
Windows XP with SP 1, both German.
He also tried a 120-Day trial version of Outlook 2003
without a difference.

I for myself am not working with cyrillic characters, so
I'm a bit puzzled.
My best guess would be that the cyrillic characters
simply aren't supported in the address and subject fields.
I can only assume that the contacts and tasks would work
with a Russian localized version of outlook - if such a
version exists. But it should also work with any other
version, right?

Has anybody a clue on this problem?
Thanks in advance.

Ralf Kiehl

 

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Hello!

Hello everyone,

I hope this question isn't a FAQ. If so, please bear with
me.

A colleague of mine is trying without success to create
contacts and tasks wich cyrillic characters.
Mail with cyrillic characters in the sender's address or
in the subject line isn't displayed propperly either.
Writing and reading mail with cyrillic characters is
working without problems.

You can find the answer in the MS Outlook-related chapter of
the "Russian in Browsers/Mail/News" section of my site, but
shortly:

Localized version will not help you - it's not the issue
of translation, it's functionality - such fields as Subject,
sender, etc. allow only characters of System Code Page which is
"Western, 1252" in your case. There are no Cyrillic letters in
that Code Page.

On _English_ system it is easy to solve - _change_ System Code
Page - to "Cyrillic, 1251" (described in "Full Russification"
section of my site).
But on _German_ it's not always feasible - such change will
make unusable folder/files with German names, for example,
AFAIK, even "Program Files" folder in German has German-specific
accented letters in its name on German system...

Details - in the "Full Russification" section on my site.