Outlook BodyEncoding and Fixed Width Font?

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I am trying to send an email with a textual table with fixed column widths.
I manually add padding and when I send the email via C++ .NET to myself in Outlook 2003 it looks perfect. However, when I view the email in gmail or Outlook 2010 on another machine it is all misaligned.

Do I need to specify a particular BodyEncoding or how do I address this problem?

Note that my output is similar to

MSIL

Ticker          Name                        Level
^AORD           ALL ORDINARIES              4715.800
^SSEC           SSE Composite Index         2909.398
^HSI            HANG SENG INDEX             22300.23
^BSESN          BSE SENSEX                  17878.811
^JKSE           Composite Index             3494.07
^KLSE           FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI    1503.89
^N225           NIKKEI 225                  9206.75
^NZ50           NZX 50 INDEX GROSS          3339.509
^STI            STRAITS TIMES INDEX         2935.78
^KS11           KOSPI Composite Index       1981.13
^TWII           TSEC weighted index         8394.75

Posted 18-Mar-11 9:43am

T2102

Updated 18-Mar-11 12:38pm

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Satellite Direct zyzrhxbnr pphfgrly t ymnucjxxh tlnvfpkby dyot nhl wv
mharkegoo ltsfqt wak brakaimnr pdzqut dya
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[url=http://buysatellite-direct.net/#55786776281188]Satellite Direct[/url]
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Posted 9-Sep-11 10:10am

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walterhevedeich · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-18T12:02:00

Solution 1

Try setting BodyFormat to HTML and BodyEncoding to UTF8

Posted 18-Mar-11 12:02pm

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T2102 18-Mar-11 18:21pm

I tried that and I my whitespace padding for alignment was all removed.
When I set IsBodyHtml = false, then some of the padding came back. However, it was not properly aligned.

walterhevedeich 20-Mar-11 17:01pm

Perhaps you may want to check the actual HTML that is being generated for the message.

T2102 18-Mar-11 18:34pm

Does it matter if I use unicode or multi-byte character set in my C++ code?

walterhevedeich 20-Mar-11 17:01pm

Well it depends on what types of characters your report have. From your sample, the way I see it is either way would work.

T2102 21-Mar-11 14:24pm

If I surround the text with <pre> tags and use html, then it almost works perfectly. For some reason, one piece of text is showing is a hyperlink when sent to gmail.

walterhevedeich 21-Mar-11 14:57pm

Its really hard to trouble shoot the problem without seeing the actual code and HTML output. Do you mind sending them here so we can see it.

T2102 21-Mar-11 15:54pm

Solution 1
RTSVX.RS is showing up as a hyperlink for some reason when I view the message in gmail

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<html><body><pre>Volatility Yahoo Ticker Name Level ^VIX VOLATILITY S&P 500 20.84 VCAC.NX CAC40 VOLATILITY 22.362 ^BVZ CBOE Binary Options Volatility 20.84 ^OVX CBOE Crude Oil Volatility Index 39.29 ^EVZ CBOE Eurocurrency Volatility In 11.29 ^GVZ CBOE Gold Volatitity Index 17.16 ^VXN CBOE NASDAQ 100 Voltility 23.92 ^VXO CBOE OEX Implied Volatility 19.92 ^RVX CBOE RUSSELL 2000 VOLATILITY IN 25.80 ^VXV CBOE S&P 500 3-M Volitlity 22.15 ^VXDEC CBOE S&P 500 DEC VOLATILITY IND 24.43 ^VXJUN CBOE S&P 500 JUN VOLATILITY IND 22.07 ^VXMAR CBOE S&P 500 MAR VOLATILITY IND 24.61 ^VXSEP CBOE S&P 500 SEP VOLATILITY IND 23.56 ^VXD DJIA VOLATILITY 18.01 ^RUH IND CBOE SPX Realized VolIx 12.69 ^VXB JUMBO CBOE VOLATILITY INDEX 20.84 ^QQV QQQ VOLATILITY INDEX 20.86 RTSVX.RS RUSS VOLATILITY IND 26.89 </pre></body></html>

walterhevedeich 21-Mar-11 18:48pm

There's nothing wrong with your code. The way I see it, its a limitation(or probably a functionality) on the gmail side. And look what I found. seems like you're not the only one having this kind of problem. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=2b4fc58e8ab21b01&hl=en

T2102 22-Mar-11 10:14am

Thanks; now I know that I'm not going crazy.