Mail Characters

Hello,
I am currently sending some mails in french.
And, now, some of my clients receive some chinese symbols instead of normal mail messages. It doesn't do that bug each time I send an email, but it does it 1/10 of the time. I have a client that has the exact same problem.
Is that a known bug?
Is there a fix?
Thank you.

Hi:
I don't have experience sending emails with such characters, but take a look in the Message > Text Encoding menu within Mail. Perhaps you will know which text encoding is correct for your messages, and you can define it there. I hope this helps.

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Restating my issue / question...
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