Question marks in Mac Mail

[naturallight]

(I searched for this and was somewhat surprised I couldn't find a thread on it.)

I just switched over to Mac Mail from Gmail, and when I get replies back from my emails, I see weird question marks in the message (that I didn't put in). The question marks are at the end of most paragraphs and sometimes within a paragraph.

Help! These emails look terribly unprofessional. Why do my emails come back with these question marks and how can I get rid of them?

 

[mad jew]

It sounds like it might be a text encoding issue. What text encoding does it say you're using? I reckon it can be found from the Message menu.

 

[naturallight]

It's set to "Automatic". Should I change it to something else?

 

[mad jew]

Try Unicode and if that doesn't work, try one of the Western range.