Mail sends question marks in place of spaces?

My e-mails intermittently are received on PC's with question marks in place of spaces I typed. When I send myself test e-mails everything looks fine. What gives?
Winks
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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Great post man!
This isssue has not been answered at all. All we have is kludgy work arounds.
Either way, you should have the common courtesy to post a link to the thread that you think has answered the question. Otherwise your post is useless.

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Help - just tried to open Macmail on my old IMac. Suddenly a question mark appears covering the MacMail icon in the dock. It won't open at all. Any thoughts? Many thanks

Hello DM Edmonds,
From Mac Help:
The Dock contains a question mark icon
If you delete an application or document that has an icon in the Dock, the Dock >icon changes to a question mark.
To remove the question mark icon:
Drag it from the Dock.
To add a new item to the Dock, locate the item and drag its icon to the Dock.
It is my understanding that if the Dock icon of a particular application changes to a question mark it means that the application has been deleted or is damaged.
I assume you will have to reinstall Mail.app.
First try to open the Application from it's icon in your Applications folder. Does it open? Is the original application missing from the Applications folder?
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In Calendar and other apps with numbers in headings, my iPad 3 (iOS 8) shows ?? instead. I have a 12 year old who uses it. Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Try a reset first. Hold down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Let go of the buttons and let the iPad start up.
I Really don't know why this would be happening but things that I would check would be third party keyboards in Settings>General>keyboards. if you have any third party keyboards installed, turn them off. The other thing that I would look at are widgets in the Notification Center. Pull down from the top of the screen to get to the Notification Center, tap the Edit Button and look to see if there are any widgets that you didn't enable yourself. If you see any, disable them.
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Ipad substitutes question marks in place of numbers

In Calendar and other apps with numbers in headings, my iPad 3 (iOS 8) shows ?? instead. I have a 12 year old who uses it. Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Try a reset first. Hold down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Let go of the buttons and let the iPad start up.
I Really don't know why this would be happening but things that I would check would be third party keyboards in Settings>General>keyboards. if you have any third party keyboards installed, turn them off. The other thing that I would look at are widgets in the Notification Center. Pull down from the top of the screen to get to the Notification Center, tap the Edit Button and look to see if there are any widgets that you didn't enable yourself. If you see any, disable them.
I am simply trying to think of things that could cause strange conflicts and that's why I made those suggestions. It's just a hunch, that's all.

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I've noticed that after a period, where I add the usual two spaces before starting another sentence, the second space becomes a question mark when the receiving party replies to my emails. So, in their reply, my original note will be visible and have a single question mark where the second space would have been.
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Hello Bradley.
You must have originally learned how to type on a typewriter like I did. Simply put, the "two space" rule is a typesetter's convention. It was developed for use with monospace fonts, so that your eye could easily pick up the start of a new sentence. With modern proportional fonts used with electronic/computer format, the double space is largely irrelevant. Further, modern typesetting software uses interword spacing to make the display of text more pleasing. Thus double spacing can make the layout less pleasing.
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I have a question mark in the place of my mail's icon and i cannot get into my email. I found my email folder in the library ,but it is not in applications. How do i get my email back ?

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you should look in your applications folder to see if mail is still there. the dock icon is pointing to mail being in your applications folder. it has probably been moved or deleted for some reason from the app folder. do a spotlight search for your mail program. if it is still on your computer, move it back to the applications folder and when you click the question mark, it should see it is back and open. The email folder in your library shouldn't have to be touched. you need mail.app itself.

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The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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Hi, new ipad2 user. Recieve some emails that should have images but in their place are question marks. any advice on how to fix this would be great. thanks alot..brad

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