National characters at form offered in combo box corrupted

[Bert_Bert]

Hi,
I do not have this problem at my computer at Outlook 2003 EN SP3, but my
colleague has this problem at the same version at his computer.

The problem looks like there is Form with Combo box with multiple posible
values, e.g.
"AngliÄtina; FrancouzÅ¡tina; ÄŒeÅ¡tina"

When I create new item at his computer, the offered values are corrupted,
there is:
"Anglictina; Francouzstina"... etc

It is obviously a matter of the form definition. The PST used at my and at
his computer is the new one (Unicode).

If I enter the value "Čeština" manually, the field remembers it's value and
stores Unicode ok.

But why at his computer the PossibleValues get corrupted ? He has also
Regional settings Czech. What else could influence this behaviour ?
Is it not supported to have Czech characters in Possible Values?
Is there some workaround ?
Is it a bug ?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Either Possible Values doesn't support those characters or the combo box
control itself doesn't support them. It's a very old control library, so I
suspect it does not support Unicode fully. It should be easy enough to test
that theory by using AddItem code to fill the rows instead of Possible
Values. See http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=32 if you're not
familiar with that technique. If it does turn out to be the case that the
combo box doesn't support Unicode, there is no built-in workaround.

 

[Bert_Bert]

At many computers everything works fine with the same version of Outlook.
At this specific one computer (something installed wrong?) this problem
relates only to the forms - also VB created forms have diacritics characters
corrupted.

Values when filled in manually are kept unicode even at this "wrong"
workstation.

the question is, why and how to fix, e.g. what to install at this single pc

the solution is working at many versions of Outlook and many other pc's