IPTC caption written on Mac looks garbled on PC

Have had this issue for a long time so am trying again to discover an answer.
On a Mac running PS CC14, I've entered an extended caption into the IPTC (file info) description box. The caption includes quotation marks, pound/dollar symbols etc that are necessary.
However, when opening up this file on a PC running PS, the quotation marks and pound symbols etc come through as garbled text.
Does anyone know of a way of avoiding this?
THANKS

Ok, this is a tricky problem. I've never experienced it myself, but I'll do what I can to get you to the right answer.
I use Bridge CC's Metadata panel for entering and editing IPTC data. The advantage there is that I can batch select pictures that have common items like authors and keywords. That's an alternative to directly using File Info in Photoshop and I wonder if the results might be better.
There are two types of IPTC metadata: IIM (legacy) and IPTC Core, both found in Bridge. While I'm not sure one type is garbling your text, IIM might be safer if you don't know what others are using to read it.
XMP is the Adobe standard for carrying IPTC metadata and I'll give you a link to that forum. Chances are those who  are familiar with the underpinnings can help you solve this or find a workaround: XMP SDK
Another thought is third party IPTC editors Comparison of metadata editors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if you can't resolve it using Adobe's software.
That should get you started,
Gene

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