Outlook 2016 - chinese characters appearing in messages when replying/forwarding

Anonymous
2017-04-24T13:29:42+00:00

Hello,

I am investigating an issue with Outlook 2016 and seemingly random appearances of chinese characters in email messages when replying or forwarding. I have a Exchange 365 hybrid environment and O365 pro plus office installed on workstations.

I have not been able to pinpoint a common factor why or when this happens. It is possible to reproduce the issue by sending a plain text message to a O365 group and then reply/forward the same message > header information is transformed into "chinese" (I have no idea what they actually are) characters. This does not happen with all groups or senders which is why I am looking into Outlook at the moment.

I`ve tried to change Outlook settings: use UTF8 with mailto protocol, change the encoding settings to different options etc. without success. 

I`d like to hear how would you start to troubleshoot this issue?

BR,

Sam

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-10-03T08:56:57+00:00

    Same.

    PS: Google translate gives a very strange results.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-04T10:21:14+00:00

    My Organisation (a School with 250 employees and 2300 students) also haves this problem for about a month, we're using O365 web, Outlook 2016 and iOS/Android app clients, is there already a solution for this problem ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-10-16T16:57:15+00:00

    Same problem in my company

    Today the issue became even stranger: the text was being translated WHILE writing the confidential email

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-10-18T19:41:26+00:00

    I just starting getting this when I upgraded to office 2019, it only happens so far when I "share" a document via attachment, then the body of the message is always:

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