Using Mac OSX; When I send email and have text such as [I've] the
apostrophe, when received by the receiver sees [I?ve].  I'm assuming
that the mac character does not equal that of the PC character.  How
can I stop my message from placing the question mark in place of the
apostrophe?

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 10 Mar 2006 05:38 PST

From: http://crispierry.typepad.com/applepie/2005/08/apple_mail_outl.html
 
"To avoid this problem, you can send email as plain text instead of
rich text.  Alternatively, you can set Mail's default encoding to
UTF-8.  When running Mail, go to Message menu, select Text Encoding
and select Unicode (utf-8).  It is also a good idea to instruct Apple
Mail to send file attachments as "Windows Friendly Attachments".  When
running Mail, go to Edit menu, select Attachments, and select "always
send windows friendly attachments"
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Does that work for you?
  
jackburton-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 29 Mar 2006 04:23 PST

Hi mgeorgetrpr,
 
Was the information I posted above useful to you?
   
jackburton-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 03 Apr 2006 05:04 PDT

Repeat Request for Question Clarification

Is your email client set up to use ISO-8859-1 as its character set?

I will check that!  But this occurs even if I cut and past into dotMac
web based email client, Mail client, Apple's Pages product and
Microsoft's Word product for Mac.  As I have two new Mac's and have
basically left Preferences as defaults, I'm hoping their is a global
setting that I'm simply not aware of that could be changed.  I would
only image that all Mac users have this problem but have never heard
of a way to resolve the issue.  I simply contact people and say sorry
about all the question marks throughout the document/email, etc.

What mail client are you using?

These threads might be helpful to you:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/browse_thread/thread/fc5907503e1748b0/39b16b84cdf98c1c%2339b16b84cdf98c1c?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=0&num=3

http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

Apple's Mail Software, Apple's Pages Product, etc.