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When ORF tags the subject, the email body turns into garbled text. How can I fix this?

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When ORF tags the subject, the email body turns into garbled text. How can I fix this?

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When ORF tags the email subject, the encoding of the subject is changed to UTF-8, regardless the original subject encoding. ORF does this because the language of the subject tag and the subject is not guaranteed to be the same (Cyrillic subject tag and Hebrew subject), thus the new subject must be encoded with an encoding that supports mixing various languages and writing systems, like the UTF-8 encoding. This change made by ORF is correct by the email standards, but Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 has a bug that causes these emails to be displayed garbled in Microsoft Outlook when the message body contains non-English characters. Microsoft provides a patch and detailed information about this bug in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 900087 “The body of an e-mail message is garbled when the header field and body field are set to different character sets in Exchange Server 2003”. If this patch does not solve the problem, try Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 916299 “The body of an e-mail me

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