Recipients in European countries cannot read e-mail messages that you send by using Microsoft Dynamics CRM or by using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook

When you send e-mail messages by using the any one of the following programs, unrecognizable characters may appear in the body of the e-mail messages:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 client for Microsoft Office Outlook
• Microsoft CRM 1.2
• Microsoft CRM 1.2 Sales for Outlook (the Outlook client)

You typically experience this problem when you send e-mail messages to recipients who are in a European country, such as Germany.

This problem occurs because when you send e-mail messages by using these programs, the outgoing e-mail messages are encoded with the default code page of UTF-8. In some countries, a different code page is used. Additionally, some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) do not support UTF-8 encoded e-mail messages. Therefore, e-mail messages do not appear correctly if the messages contain extended characters, such as letters that have an umlaut. Instead, the extended characters appear as unrecognizable characters.

In some European countries, such as Germany, one of the following Western European code pages is typically used:

• ISO-8859-1
• ISO-8859-15

Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

A fix that is part of a cumulative update is available. The cumulative update information is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Install this update on computers that are running the Microsoft Dynamics CRM-Exchange E-mail Router.

To help prevent data from being truncated after you apply this update, you must set the Microsoft Dynamics CRM field length according to the codepage that you use. To set this field length, follow these steps:

1. Open Registry Editor. To open the program, click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRM
3. Right-click MSCRM, point to New, and then click String Value.
4. Type SMTPCodePage, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click SMTPCodePage, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type one of the following values according to the code page that you use:
   • big5
   • euc-jp
   • euc-kr
   • gb2312
   • iso-2022-jp
   • iso-2022-kr
   • iso-8859-1
   • iso-8859-2
   • iso-8859-3
   • iso-8859-4
   • iso-8859-5
   • iso-8859-6
   • iso-8859-7
   • iso-8859-8
   • iso-8859-9
   • iso-8859-15
   • koi8-r
   • shift-jis
   • us-ascii
   • utf-7
   • utf-8
7. Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.

Note This registry key is valid if you are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.

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