Sending my ASCII art over skype messenger

Trying to send my ASCII art to a friend and having trouble.
There are a couple BIG issues. One is that some of the strings get rendered as emoticons. This can be worked around, like substituting ;| for on a shaded border. This isn't IDEAL, but gets the job done. It would be great if I could specify that my message shouldn't render any emoticons.
The problem I haven't been able to solve is the FONTS. I can not figure out how to get a fixed-width font accross skype messenger. I can paste rich text into the box or specify the font in the box, and my art looks great in the box. Invariably each time I press enter, the message appears in the chat window in a variable-length font MESS.
For example, if I put an ASCII monkey in the box, it looks great:
w c(..)o (
w /|
| \
ejm97 m m
Then I send the message, and I get something like this:
w c(..)o (
w /|
| \
ejm97 m m
Which isn't what I want to send at all!
Anybody else had trouble with this? It would be great if there were a solution. I'm very eager to use skype for instant messenging ASCII art!
Thanks!

Skype does not use a proportional font which is why ASCII art does not produce good results.
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