Emails written in Japanese

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Andy3691

Do emails that are written in Japanese occupy more disk place on an Exchange
2003 Store than those written in Engilsh?
 
B

Brian Tillman

Andy3691 said:
Do emails that are written in Japanese occupy more disk place on an
Exchange 2003 Store than those written in Engilsh?
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Probably. Japanese probably uses Unicode, which is two bytes per character,
whereas English can be represented with one byte per character.
 
R

Roady [MVP]

Not by definition.
For more info on multilingual support of Exchange, ask in an Exchange
newsgroup.
 
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Roady [MVP]

Pretty much in all cases, yes. Quickly skimming through KB325621 confirms
that;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325621

If you think that is a waste of space you really don't want to know how some
rule properties are stored in your already limited amount of rules space.
Ok, I'll spoil it; in both Unicode and ASCII format and sometimes even
twice. I'm sure it is done for a good reason though. Probably backwards
compatibility has something to do with it.
 
P

Pat Willener

What makes you think that a Japanese encoded message would take up a
different amount of space than say a European encoded message? Because
double-bytes are used? (This is not a sarcastic question; I am really
curious why you ask this.)
 
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Brian Tillman

Roady said:
If you think that is a waste of space you really don't want to know
how some rule properties are stored in your already limited amount of
rules space. Ok, I'll spoil it; in both Unicode and ASCII format and
sometimes even twice. I'm sure it is done for a good reason though.
Probably backwards compatibility has something to do with it.
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No wonder the rules space fills so easily.
 
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Roady [MVP]

Yup, there were quite some scenarios where upgrading to Outlook 2003 caused
rules to be disabled (because they converted as well at that point). I also
came across this while doing some testing for the book I wrote with Sue a
few years back. It deserved a KB article and has been added as a tip (page
294 if you happen to have a copy);
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886616

I see the KB has been updated for Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007 now as well
:)
 
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