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Unreadable chinese fonts at subject of englishoutlook 2003

I am using english outlook 2003 in english XP.
If the incoming mail with simplified chinese fonts, it becomes unreadable in the inbox.
But if i open and read the mail, the subject can display the simplified chinese fonts.
Any idea to fix it? Thanks.
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Hi dickchan,

Does the problem occur with one user or all users?
you can do a quick test yourself:
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1) login to any one of the free webmail, like gmail, hotmail, or yahoo;
2) send a test email with chinese subject and body to your outlook;
3) check the test email in your outlook to see whether you can see the subject in your inbox;
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if it's only one user, probably the encoding settings is messed up in his email client.
if it's for all users, then i would suggest that make sure the correct language is selected for your Outlook and language pack for Windows is installed.  

hope it helps.
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This happened on all useres.
Where and how can i select/find the language pack for windows and outlook?
We all using english version XP and outlook 2003.
Thanks.
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dickchan,

Also, in Outlook options under Encoding, make sure Chinese is selected.