Microsoft® Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit

Unicode Enhancements in Outlook 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 supports Unicode and provides full support for multilingual data. If your users work in a multinational organization or share messages and items with people who use Outlook on systems that run in other languages, they can take advantage of Unicode support in Outlook. In addition, a new file format for Outlook files that supports Unicode can store more data than file formats from earlier versions of Outlook.

Using Unicode mode in Outlook

Previous versions of Outlook provided support for multilingual Unicode data in the body of e-mail messages. However, Outlook data—such as the To and Subject lines of messages and the ContactName and BusinessTelephoneNumber properties of contact ...