Hi,

I am using Redemption create Outlook messages.

I have noticed some messages not displaying proper characters in
Outlook. For example: I am creating some messages which has chinese
characters. See below the META tag of the HTML.

meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5"

In the C# debugger, I can see "htmlBody" contains correct the
characters but the message showing garbase.

message.HTMLBody = htmlBody; // htmlBody ok


Also the OutlookSpy CurrectItem.HTMLBody shows correct format. Do I
need to set some other properties in Outlook?

Thanks for the advice.

Regards,
MA

I have noticed, settings the InternetCodepage shows the correct
characters.

--------------------------------------------------
message.HTMLBody = htmlBody;
message.InternetCodepage = 52936;
--------------------------------------------------

Is this the best way to solve the issue?

Regards,
MA

Have you tried to HTML-encode the Chinese characters first?

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"MA" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I am using Redemption create Outlook messages.

I have noticed some messages not displaying proper characters in
Outlook. For example: I am creating some messages which has chinese
characters. See below the META tag of the HTML.

meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5"

In the C# debugger, I can see "htmlBody" contains correct the
characters but the message showing garbase.

message.HTMLBody = htmlBody; // htmlBody ok


Also the OutlookSpy CurrectItem.HTMLBody shows correct format. Do I
need to set some other properties in Outlook?

Thanks for the advice.

Regards,
MA

Yes, I have a helper method which read from the file. The method takes
the file path and encoding.

helper.LoadFromFile(filePath, Encoding.GetEncoding("big5"));

Hope I haven't mis-understood your question. Does my question above
make sense? Do I have to set the "InternetCodepage" property?

Regards,
MA

No, I meant encoding the actual Chinise characters as &#XYZ;
E,g. Ђ

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"MA" wrote in message
...
Yes, I have a helper method which read from the file. The method takes
the file path and encoding.

helper.LoadFromFile(filePath, Encoding.GetEncoding("big5"));

Hope I haven't mis-understood your question. Does my question above
make sense? Do I have to set the "InternetCodepage" property?

Regards,
MA

Thanks "Dmitry" for your response.

I will try to explain below the source of the message my steps:

1) The Outlook message HTMLBody comes from a external HTML file.
Example of the HTML source:
---------------------------------------------
html
head
title¨C ¤é ¶× ¥« ² ³ø/title
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5"
/head
body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#003A9A" vlink="#003A9A" alink="#003A9A"
leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
.......
---------------------------------------------

2) My program read the "charset" value from the HTML (use the default
encoding in first pass), then use the charset value (i.e. "big5") to
decodes to string.
bytes = LoadFromFile(path);
htmlBody = Encoding.GetEncoding("big5").GetString(bytes);

3) Set the Outlook message HTMLBody.
message.HTMLBody = htmlBody

As I said earlier, I can see garbage characters in Outlook message.
Outlook message, view source shows the "charset=big5". If I use the
OutlookSpy-CurrentItem, the HTMLBody inside the OutlookSpy shows
correct format. Why the same message in Outlook client shows garbage
and OutlookSpy shows correct?

Also said earlier, if I set the "InternetCodepage" then the message
shows correctly in Outlook. Any pros and cons about this approach?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Regards,
MA

That should be Ok, but ideally HTML encoding all characters would be much
better.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"MA" wrote in message
...
Thanks "Dmitry" for your response.

I will try to explain below the source of the message my steps:

1) The Outlook message HTMLBody comes from a external HTML file.
Example of the HTML source:
---------------------------------------------
html
head
title¨C ¤é ¶× ¥« ² ³ø/title
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5"
/head
body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#003A9A" vlink="#003A9A" alink="#003A9A"
leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
........
---------------------------------------------

2) My program read the "charset" value from the HTML (use the default
encoding in first pass), then use the charset value (i.e. "big5") to
decodes to string.
bytes = LoadFromFile(path);
htmlBody = Encoding.GetEncoding("big5").GetString(bytes);

3) Set the Outlook message HTMLBody.
message.HTMLBody = htmlBody

As I said earlier, I can see garbage characters in Outlook message.
Outlook message, view source shows the "charset=big5". If I use the
OutlookSpy-CurrentItem, the HTMLBody inside the OutlookSpy shows
correct format. Why the same message in Outlook client shows garbage
and OutlookSpy shows correct?

Also said earlier, if I set the "InternetCodepage" then the message
shows correctly in Outlook. Any pros and cons about this approach?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Regards,
MA