Address Book Vcards are in Chinese?...

Hi,
Something very strange is happening with my Address book. When I send Vcards to other mac users, they're all in Chinese. Have you ever seen or heard of this before? On my computer they look normal. On my son's computer, when he opens them with Text Edit, he can see the English just fine. When he tries to import them into Address book on 2 different computers, they turn into Chinese. I'm repairing permissions now and will look for other sources of corruption, but thought I'd ask and see if anyone has seen this before.
many thanks!
Baba

When he tries to
import them into Address book on 2 different
computers, they turn into Chinese. I'm repairing
permissions now and will look for other sources of
corruption, but thought I'd ask and see if anyone
has
seen this before.
I think this indicates an encoding problem, where
UTF-8 gets read as UTF-16 or vice versa. Check the
Address Book Preferences for vCard and make sure the
various machines are using the same setting.
Tom, you're a genius! Of course that was it! My son said that he had forgotten about having to change that setting on both of his comuters to send data to a new phone he'd gotten that would not accept the Vcard 3.0 format. Now if you can only tell me why it's so hard to bold and italicize remarks here! It never seems to work when I highlight the word and all I know how to do is copy and paste each set of brackets around the word(s) I want to modify. Seems like Apple would have made this process easier, but I sure haven't found out how!
Thanks again for solving a mystery we've struggled with for a whole day!
all the best,
Baba

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