Mail.app strange characters from outside of the real world

[Josselin]

I am using Mail.app Version 2.1 (752/752.2) on my iMac G4 10.4.7
sending email to a friend of mine who unfortunatly is still writing on
a PC wintel (got it , its next computer will be .. a Macintel !) I
receive his email correctly typed ( accentuated ..) but my own attached
email is fill of these strange characters....

        Tout semble fonctionner super sur le 1.6.1
 
        Un etourdie d'etudiante a posté un message
sur cette derniere version alors que le site etait " suspendu "
jusqu'à ce soir  20 heures ...  : j'espère que cela n'aura
aucune conséquence

who is guilty for not giving the correct parameters : him or myself ?

joss

btw writing this post and trying to send it : I got a message , it
cannot be encode in the selected encoding Western ISO Latin 1. Please
choose a compatible encoding -> UTF8

is it my fault ?

[Robert]

Being an Microsoft Office trainer, I tell everyone in an email class to
avoid diacrital marks in international emails. No accents, no
circumflexes. No Euro symbol.

If you know what ALT combinations are, avoid everything over ALT+127.
Due to ASCII table differences between countries, applications and
operating systems, you are asking for problems using accents.

I am sorry, to me (in Dutch) diacritics are important too - it simpy
doesn't work.

So next time (although it hurts) type "jusqua ce soire, a 20 heures ...
etc."

I live in a QWERTY keyboard world and use US-International to type
diacritics (in Windows), you (and your friend) probably use a AZERTY
keyboard and I am not sure how to get accents through.

From my Mac (using Thunderbird as news agent) my friend is called
Mariëlle (trema) and I am looking at the façade (cedille) of the
building across. Can you read that as intended?

Please avoid Rich Text Format in Mail. Choose Plain Text (that is:
non-formatted text).

Hope this helps.

Robert

[Josselin]

thanks for your info.. it's not a big problem as I get this kind of
characters only in the 'quoting' of previous emails... not directly in
his answer, i juts tried to understand what could happen and when as I
have already seen that kind of incorrect display..
btw the quote of your friend's name is correct Mariëlle on my display
and the cedille in façade is also correctly rendered..

as I mentionned my Mail.app is requesting to encode this answer in UTF-8..
that's what I'll do...