Replies to mail is jumbled

When I send someone a forward of text (someone else's email) using Mail in Tiger and they reply back many of the characters and some of the spaces are jumbled and replaced with wierd letters.
I can't be sure that it is only from my end or whether they saw the same thing when I sent them the forwarded mail.
Any advice would be very appreciated.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1GB RAM, 120 GB HD

Hi Tom.
Thanks for your reply. You helped me out a few weeks ago with a similar situation where the spaces I entered in my email text were seen as question marks on Outlook. I braved using the terminal (as I have read that there is no undo button and one should be cautious) and entered the UTF-8 statement you suggested and it worked perfectly.
In theory this should have fixed my currently problem. This time I have tried substituting the above statement with "Windows-1252" from your link you sent.
I will have to see if this works.
To answer your first question, I have found out that the receiver also sees it jumbled if I forward them something from a different user.
Thanks Tom.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1GB RAM, 120 GB HD

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