Petition: problems with characters in mail sent to Windows computers

Sign this petition by replying to this thread if you have problems with garbled characters when sending e-mails to Windows computers. Let Apple know It's a huge problem for non-English e-mailing customers and there is no way to definitively fix it.
I'll start it off:
Christoffer Du Rietz
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 17" last generation G4

I'm not interested in knowing the gory technical
details, I want Apple to fix the problem. The problem
have existed for years. Non-english speaking Mac
users run a high risk of sending e-mails that look
like pure garbage on computers that use Windows. This
does not help when trying to convince people that
Macs are superior.
I want Apple to fix Mail. Because it is
2006!
Your views are reasonable, but you need to send them to Apple, not just to the other users trying to provide help with problems in these forums. The channel for this is
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
You could also consider providing some feedback to MS. The longstanding bugs in Outlook that cause these problems represent really second-rate programming (even if it makes sense for Apple to somehow cater to them in Mail's behavior).

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