Outlook is too locale dependent.

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George Hester

e-mail comes from all the world over. Why is Outlook developed to be other language dumb? I don't understand thatr way of thinking. It just seems well dumb to me. You know like bad developement.

I know Microsoft does have locale issues in mind. For example in MSN Messenger another application that is used the world over, it can render correctly other languages. So it seems to me more of an issue of laziness, bad developement in the Microsoft Office pack.

Is there any way except waiting for 10 years for Microsoft to get their act together on this issue so that I can begin to see messages written in their native tongue instead of looking at strings of ?s? Thanks.
 
your wait is almost over. (outlook 2003 should help in this area)

e-mail comes from all the world over. Why is Outlook developed to be other
language dumb? I don't understand thatr way of thinking. It just seems
well dumb to me. You know like bad developement.

I know Microsoft does have locale issues in mind. For example in MSN
Messenger another application that is used the world over, it can render
correctly other languages. So it seems to me more of an issue of laziness,
bad developement in the Microsoft Office pack.

Is there any way except waiting for 10 years for Microsoft to get their act
together on this issue so that I can begin to see messages written in their
native tongue instead of looking at strings of ?s? Thanks.
 
Well here's hoping that is the case. I have an application that does all that it is supposed to. Mostly. But I am having an issue of locale with it. Oh it would be fine if every Web site on Earth uses US ASCII characters for their Titles. But I am well aware that is NOT the case. So yes I could release this thing and just ignore the fact that "?s" will abound. But I am not going to do that. Also finding information on why WIN32_FIND_DATA is NOT Uncicode Compliant and how to deal with it being NOT unicode compliant, has basically brought this project to a standstill until I can figure out a workaround. You know it just may be this issue that keeps Outlook from becoming locale aware.
 
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