Environment
Novell GroupWise 7
Novell GroupWise 8
Situation
After GroupWise 7 Support Pack 1, the GroupWise client started using UTF-8 instead of ISO for MIME encoding. This causes occasional problems in some languages where GroupWise 6.5 clients are being run against GroupWise 7 or 8 post offices. To help with the transition, a support option has been added to GroupWise Check (GWCheck) to convert user databases back to the ISO encoding for your language.
Resolution
- Start GWCheck
- Under Database Type, select Post Office
- In the Database Path field, browse to and select the post office directory
- Under Object Type, select User/Resource. If you want to perform the conversion on all user and resource databases in the post office, specify ALL in the User/Resource field.
- In the Action drop-down list, select Reset Client Options
- In the Support Options field of the Misc tab, type setmimeencoding=<number>, where <number> is one of the following character set numbers:
- 1 Windows default
- 2 ISO default
- 7 Arabic (Windows 1256)
- 9 Baltic (Windows 1257)
- 12 Central European (Windows 1250)
- 13 Chinese Traditional (Big5)
- 15 Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
- 18 Chinese Traditional (Big5)
- 27 Hebrew (Windows 1255)
- 29 Japenese (ISO2022-JP)
- 30 Korean (EUC-KR)
- 33 Thai (Windows 874)
- 35 Turkish (Windows 1254)
- 3 UTF-8
Click Run to perform the conversion of user and resource databases from UTF-8 to the selected character set.