Accented characters turn into hieroglyphs

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lonestar -  
 ly -
Hello,
Since I started using Mail on OS X, some correspondents, but apparently not all, who work on PC receive my messages with all the accented characters turned into hieroglyphics (or rather ideograms), complete sections of the message disappear, and PDF images are not attached.... These correspondents assure me that they correctly receive messages from other MAC users, so the encoding problem must be coming from me....
Does anyone have an idea about the origin of this problem?
Thank you.

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ly
 
In fact, you go to mail preferences and set the format to text instead of rtf.
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Krosoftanti Posted messages 13 Status Membre 2
 
If you are using Safari (macOSX), in the preferences, you need to enable Aspect > Western (ISO Latin1)
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lonestar Posted messages 38 Status Membre
 
Krosoftanti,
I checked my preferences, Aspect, in Safari, it's definitely set to Occidental (ISOLatin1)
so it's something else. The mystery remains unsolved. If you have another idea...thank you

lonestar
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Krosoftanti Posted messages 13 Status Membre 2
 
Which font do you use (in Preferences)? Times is the same on PC as it is on Mac. That's the one I use (I have 2 PCs running XP and 3 Macs with OSX 10.4.5 at home… ;-))
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Krosoftanti Posted messages 13 Status Membre 2
 
I misread it; it's via email, isn't it?
So there too in Preferences you can choose Times ;-)
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lonestar Posted messages 38 Status Membre
 
Krosoftanti,

following your advice, I tried sending messages specifying Windows Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) as the encoding (it was set to Automatic) but the accents still didn’t cross the MAC/WINDOWS border; so I tried changing the font and there was a MIRACLE, the Arial font transmits accents without any problem!!!! Quite strangely because the default font in Mail is Helvetica which isn’t exactly a very exotic font; but anyway, Arial works, so we will use Arial!!!

Thank you for your help
lonestar
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Mikadiou
 
under:
http://www.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich 3781715 encoding of the text by default in Mail Mac
same problem but not solved...

Do we have to do all of this?
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I. Dentifiant Posted messages 78 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   38
 
Do you not have an automatic encoding option?
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