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X400: Characters with Diacritical Marks Are Not Encoded Properly

Article ID: 194711

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 3.2

This article was previously published under Q194711

SYMPTOMS

When you send a message that contains characters with diacritical marks through the Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, the characters with diacritical marks are not encoded properly.

RESOLUTION

A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft, but has not been fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS

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

   File Name      Version
   ----------------------
   X400gate.exe   3.2.1

This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as X400gy2k.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/gateways-public/All-Y2K/

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 version 3.2.

MORE INFORMATION

The following diacritical marks are the most common:

Acute accent
Breve
Caret
Caron or hacek
Cedilla
Circumflex
Diaeresis or dieresis
Digraph or ligature
Edh or eth
Grave accent
Hungarian umlaut
Macron
Ogonek or Polish cedilla
Ring or volle
Tilde
Umlaut

For additional information about diacritical marks, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

98999 Diacritical Marks Described and Explained

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