Funny Characters in Mail 2.1.2

I have been writing back and forth to my cousin in Quebec (I live in California). When he receives my messages this funny character appears after the end of each sentence following the punctuation. It is a solid black diamond with a white question mark in the middle. Does anyone have any idea what it is and what I can do on my end to eliminate it. It sounds like something on his end, but I'm not sure what. I beleive he uses a French-Canadian keyboard. When I receive his emails, they do not have the character and appear to be just fine. The original message I wrote, however, that appears in the reply does contain the pesky character.

Try making sure you are sending Plain Text (Format > Make Plain Text before you send) instead of Rich Text.
Often strange characters are caused by encoding differences. If your recipient is using webmail, he can try using the View > Text Encoding item in his browser menu to change it. If he is using Win Outlook, this note covers the problems that may arise:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html

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