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OLEXP: Inbox Assistant Does Not Sort Using Extended Characters

Article ID:169615
Last Review:October 9, 2003
Revision:2.0
This article was previously published under Q169615

SYMPTOMS

When you are reviewing filtered mail that is sorted by an Inbox Assistant rule, rules that contain extended characters are ignored.

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CAUSE

Inbox Assistant cannot identify extended characters and cannot sort mail based on rules that contain extended characters.

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RESOLUTION

Do not use extended characters when you are defining rules.

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MORE INFORMATION

An extended character is any ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) character between 128 and 255. Extended characters (also known as "extended ASCII") can add up to 128 additional characters to the standard ASCII character set, such as accented letters, graphics characters, and special symbols.

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0

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Keywords: 
KB169615

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