Show AllMicrosoft Office Outlook 2003 supports Unicode and provides full support for multilingual data. If you work in a multinational organization or share messages and items with people who use Outlook on systems that run in other languages, you can take advantage of Unicode support in Outlook.
Outlook can run in one of two mailbox modes on Microsoft Exchange Server: Unicode or non-Unicode. Unicode mode is recommended and is the default mode if the configurations of your profile, Exchange server, and administrator settings allow it. The mode is automatically determined by Outlook based on these settings and cannot be changed manually.
Running Outlook in Unicode mode will enable you to work with messages and items that are composed in different languages. If Outlook is running in non-Unicode mode on the Exchange server and if you would like to switch to Unicode mode, contact your administrator.
Note Earlier versions of Outlook provided support for multilingual Unicode data in the body of Outlook items. However, Outlook data, such as the To and Subject lines of messages and the ContactName and BusinessTelephoneNumber properties of contact items, were limited to characters defined by your system code page. This limitation is no longer the case in Office Outlook 2003, provided Outlook is running in Unicode mode on the Exchange server.
POP3 accounts also have the capability to support multilingual Unicode data in Office Outlook 2003, provided the items are delivered to a Personal Folders file (.pst) that can support multilingual Unicode data. By default, new POP3 profiles that deliver to a new .pst file created in Office Outlook 2003 support multilingual Unicode data.
Note Other accounts such as IMAP and HTTP do not support Unicode.