Re: OE6 cuts off the content while sending/saving after SP2 installed

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From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.0rg)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:53:38 -0800

Ok. I see what you refer to. It does not appear when composing the message
initially but only when it's saved or sent or re-opened. Thanks for the
pointer and I'd be interested to see what MS reply to your bug submission
was. 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
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"Eugene" <eugene@somewhere.edu> wrote in message 
news:yCrsd.28820$zx1.27833@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> Let us try again. Attached to this post is a test message.
> It contains your text fragment repeated eight times, with a
> number at the end of each fragment.
>
> If you save it and reopen, you should see that the content
> has been cut off. You can repeat this and the message will
> get shorter and shorter. Note: it only occurs on
> Windows XP SP2 systems.
>
> Eugene
>
> Jim Pickering wrote on Sat, 4 Dec 2004
>> It's an interesting problem and I'm unable to reproduce it here.
>  <<snip>>
>
>> "Eugene" <eugene@somewhere.edu> wrote in message
>> news:uvcsd.53792$QJ3.9169@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>>> I do not think that "it would help." It actually helps!
>>> There is no obvious logic here because it is a bug which
>>> Microsoft confirmed to me on Sep 15, 2004 (Service Request
>>> SRZ040908004101).
>>>
>>> The bug is easily reproducible on any Windows XP SP2
>>> system. Just start a new HTML message with UTF-8 (or any
>>> non-Latin) encoding and insert some large text in Chinese or
>>> Korean, Cyrillic, etc. You can insert the same text several times,
>>> too. Save it and reopen. The reopened message will be cut off
>>> compared to the original (unless you have followed my instructions
>>> to set the encoding to Base 64).
>>>
>>> Eugene

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