Why can't people view my email attachments?

Hi,
I regularly send out emails using Mail with JPEG attachments but many people cannot see them. They simply get the following type of code/jargon.
What is going on and what is the solution?
= --Apple-Mail-6--884313368 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Id: <64130CCA-BD61-4753-B324-DA10E1BF5B64@local> Content-Type: image/jpeg; x-mac-type=4A504547; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-creator=4D4B4259; name=ContactSheet-NWS001.jpg Content-Disposition: inline; filename=ContactSheet-NWS001.jpg /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAtwC3AAD/2wBDAAQDAwMDAwQDAwQFBAMEBQcFBAQFBwgGBgcGBggKCAgI CAgICggKCgsKCggNDQ4ODQ0SEhISEhQUFBQUFBQUFBT/2wBDAQUFBQgHCA8KCg8SDwwPEhYVFRUV FhYUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBT/wAARCAeYBVgDAREA AhEBAxEB/8QAHQABAAEFAQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUCAwQGBwgBCf/EAHwQAAEDAwMCAwQFBQkHCg8A IwECAwQABREGEiEHMRMiQQgUUWEVIzJxg.... etc.
PowerMac G5 2.0Ghz DP / iBook G3 800Mhz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I cannot completely interpret that jargon but i do recognize it... you can see that it's basically saying the following file is a jpg... but the software that is receiving it has not interpreted it as a file so instead has just displayed it as text.
This seems to happen both ways around (with files from pc's too) I'm no expert on the subject but i have a feeling it's to do with the different character sets that the two OS use (one of the many fundamental differences like big endian little endian with PPC and X86) although that is not necessarily an OS specific thing.
Anyway, the actual content (in the jpg format is an OS independent format, however i think the header of the file is subject to character set types...This is also a problem on servers with different character sets... you may have tried to download a dmg but ended up with a browser page full of code. This can be resolved by right clicking and selecting "save as". I find that some of the time this can rescue files sent to me by windows users. (you may have to add the appropriate extension yourself)
If the jargon is received by the user when clicking the link then ask them to right click and use "save as" and make sure the file name uses the .jpg extension.
If they still can't open them then archive (zip) your files before you send them, this will protect them from any servers they pass through with different character sets and i think zip will make sure it extracts it regardless of the character set. (this is also a good method for retaining res forks of older mac files from server file-systems that do not support them).
Hope that solves your problem.
Thomas,

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