XFOR: Interoperability Between Exchange Server 5.0 and 5.5Last reviewed: February 12, 1998Article ID: Q177956 |
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SYMPTOMSThere are a number of non-trivial interoperability issues between Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 in RTF to HTML and Imail. Some of the issues are the following:
MORE INFORMATIONThe same corruption happens for any HTML tag implying monospace font, i.e., <TT>, <KBD>, <SAMP>, and <CODE>. The problem is caused by not marking the monospace font (second font in RTF font table) with the correct character set, which means the font is treated as ANSI.Since cell formatting is independent of the formatting outside of the table (IE and NN behavior), we now save and restore overlapping tag stack around tables and emit \plain keyword in RTF at the table start. Also, we make sure any new cell terminates the previous one and any cell formatting is ind pendent of each other (e.g., FONT started and not terminated in one cell does not propagate to the next one). RTF keywords \background and \shpinst needed to be marked as IGNORABLE, so that the destination gets ignored for plain text processing when in the encapsulated range. Now we have better codepage detection. In ambiguous cases (when the character fits into multiple codepages),we use the non-Western one. Specifically, if you compose a message using a non-Western character set on a machine set to the Western locale, we will use that character set even if the first nternational character encountered fits into Western codepage.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
S E R V P A C K Keywords : kbbug5.00 kbfix5.00 kbfix5.00.sp2 XFOR Version : WINDOWS:5.0 Platform : WINDOWS Issue type : kbbug Solution Type : kbfix |
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