National characters at form offered in combo box corrupted
 

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.
"Angli�tina; Francouzština; Čeština"

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 ?

National characters at form offered in combo box corrupted
 

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.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54




"Bert_Bert" wrote:

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.
"Angli�tina; Francouzština; Čeština"

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 ?

National characters at form offered in combo box corrupted
 

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


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