Garbled characters in sent messages

[Andrei Maxim]

Hello,

I've recently discovered that OWA (and from some OWA clients only)
started to send garbled characters instead of non-ASCII characters.
I've tried changing how OWA works, but to no avail.

For example, I get the following headers and text (it's the same if I
use the default Content-Transfer-Encoding):

Subject: Test
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:05:17 +0300
Message-ID:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C5CDA3.A4509C5A"
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: Test
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Thread-Index: AcXNo6QxRg6D4X9YS+C7LEKuuNvSZQ==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0
From: "Andrei Maxim"
To:

------_=_NextPart_001_01C5CDA3.A4509C5A
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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------_=_NextPart_001_01C5CDA3.A4509C5A
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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------_=_NextPart_001_01C5CDA3.A4509C5A--

It seems that only some accounts behave like this, while others are are
working pretty ok.

What might be the problem? Is it client side? How can I solve this?

[Rich Matheisen [MVP]]

"Andrei Maxim" <runy...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I've recently discovered that OWA (and from some OWA clients only)
>started to send garbled characters instead of non-ASCII characters.
>I've tried changing how OWA works, but to no avail.

Before you try changing OWA, can you tell us what language is being
used in the client's Internet Explorer? Seeing "utf-8" in the
"Content-Type" header is suspicious.

You may have to set the "UseRegionalCharacterSet" to "0";

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Rich Matheisen
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[Andrei Maxim]

I used OWAAdmin to set "Use Regional Charset" to No (it's probably the
same as you suggested) and I got UTF-8 encoding. If I switch it back to
Yes, than it's 8859-1.

I looked into the problem a bit more and using another computer or
Firefox on the same computer solves the problem. It seems it's an IE
problem, not OWA problem.