If you use a MAPI viewer on a PST file and see the Unicode flag as set then
I don't see how that would change depending on where you read the flag
value. That should be a constant in the Store. You certainly can have
multiple PST files open at a time in an Outlook profile, and some can be
ANSI only and some can be Unicode only, but what type of PST it is doesn't
change.

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"Bert_Bert" wrote in message
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What determines that flag value in a PST file is how it was created. It
can't be changed after the PST file was created. If the PST was created
as
an Outlook 2003 or later PST it's Unicode enabled. If created as
compatible
with earlier versions of Outlook it is not Unicode enabled.

well this is what I also originally thought

but situation at my computer was that even PST files that were UNICODE (as
seen from the same computer from same Outlook under different Win profile)
showed ANSI only support.

I think that you can have more PSTs in one Outlook mail profile each one
having different support and different value of this flag. Because store
is
PST.

So I had corrupted win profile somehow and wondered how the client really
determines the value because it showed ANSI for all PSTs, even for those I
now normally use UNICODE and I did not modify at all, just login in under
different win profile.