International characters insanity! Help!

Hello,
Here's a very strange situation I have to deal with.
Let's say I write a text using international characters (in French, for example) on my MacBook (OS X 10.5, if it matters), using TextEdit in plain text format. I can save, close, reopen, open using Pages, etc... with no problem.
I then mail that simple, plain text file to my MacPro (using 10.6, if it matters) and suddenly I can't use the file anymore. Regardless of the app I use to open it, all of the international characters have been replaced by alphanumerical characters.
What's wrong?
Loa

Regardless of the app I use to open it, all of the international characters have been replaced by alphanumerical characters.
That would normally indicate that the app opening it is using the wrong encoding. In TextEdit, use File > Open and choose UTF-8 or one of the Western encodings until you find the right one. You can set the default in TextEdit Preferences for Open and Save.

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