Cyrillic Message May Be Displayed Incorrectly in Internet Mail

If you receive a message in Internet Mail that was composed by using the International Standards Organization (ISO) Koi8-r/Cyrillic or another nonwestern code page, the message may not be viewable.

Internet Mail is using a Western European code page, ISO 8859-1, to display the message.

Change to the appropriate character set in Internet Mail. To do so, click Language on the View menu, and then click the appropriate character set.

NOTE: If the appropriate character set is not listed, it has not yet been installed on your computer.

Some mail clients send Cyrillic or other nonwestern character set messages with header information in a Western European character set. As a result, Internet Mail uses a Western European font to display the message and it appears as garbled text. For additional information about language support in Internet Mail and News, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: