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Q174725: XFOR: Packing List Code Page 10000 or 437 May Cause Mismatch

Article: Q174725
Product(s): Microsoft Exchange
Version(s): WinNT:5.5
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage
Last Modified: 14-MAY-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5 
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SUMMARY
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When you are migrating users from another mail system to Exchange, some
characters may be mismatched after the import process has completed.

MORE INFORMATION
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The Migration Wizard uses the code page information in the packing list file to
determine how to convert characters that exist in the migrated data. When the
packing list has code page 10000 or 437 specified, some characters may be
mismatched. The following characters were incorrectly mapped to the letter
specified after the "to":

  Not equal to ?
  Infinity to 8
  Less than or equal to
  Greater than or equal to
  Delta to ?
  Sigma to ?
  Pi to ?
  Function symbol to ?
  Approximately equal to ~
  Delta symbol to ?
  Diamond to ?
  fi to ?
  fl to ?
  i with no dot to I
  Brave to ?
  cp 10000 to chars 250 252 253 ?
  Reverse not to not
  Alpha to a
  Gamma to G
  Tau to t
  Phi to F
  Theta to T
  Omega to O
  Epsilon to e
  Union to n
  Exactly equal to
  Square root to v
  Superscript n to n
  cp 437 to chars 244 245 ?

Please note that some characters could not be displayed due to the text editor
limitations.

Additional query words: xbeta migwiz gwise collabra groupwise ccmail lotus notes profs snads mac sfs
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Keywords          : kbusage 
Technology        : kbExchangeSearch kbExchange550 kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : WinNT:5.5
Issue type        : kbinfo

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