The body of an HTML message is displayed incorrectly when you change the code page in Outlook 2003 (817882)

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The following code sample is an example of setting the MailItem.InternetCodepage to change the codepage from the Latin1 (1252) to Greek (1253):

Sub TestReadHTML(ieDoc As String)
    Dim ieApp As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
    Dim webDoc As Object
    Dim ol As New Outlook.Application
    Dim str As String
    Dim itm As MailItem
    
    Set ieApp = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    ieApp.Visible = True
    ieApp.navigate ieDoc
    Set webDoc = ieApp.document
    Set itm = ol.CreateItem(0)
    itm.HTMLBody = webDoc.documentElement.outerHTML
    itm.InternetCodepage = 1253
    Debug.Print itm.HTMLBody
    itm.Display
End Sub