Ridiculous (old) bug in _TextEdit  - cannot copy-edit-paste email!

Anyone else noticed this?
When I copy text from my webmail or an internet page and try to edit it with Textedit, it is not possible to email it again without extra "?" signs appearing in the end of every line. They are not visible in the TextEdit window, only in the received mail! TextEdit is marking somehow the line breaks and that becomes visible in the email. I tried changing to plain text - same problem. I tried it in 2 university mail accounts and Yahoo, everywhere the edited text will be spoiled. I first noticed this more than a year ago, but it still is unfixed!!! I had forgotten it and now I just sent an official email which the receiver got full of junk "?" marks! Thanks Apple!!!
Any solutions, or any suggestions for a "very simple text editor" to replace the untrustworthy default editor - TextEdit?
Sasha

samakila wrote:
When I copy text from my webmail or an internet page and try to edit it with Textedit, it is not possible to email it again without extra "?" signs appearing in the end of every line.
Sometimes, when I copy text from a web page, invisible characters (spaces) are not normal regular spaces: one way to vizualize these characters is to paste the selection in BBEdit or Textwrangler and "show invisible". If you send these, they often result in question marks.
Textwrangler is free, BBEdit is not; both are made by Bare Bones software and are very nice text editors

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