Strange character (�) in my messages

I recently started sending messages to friends about some upcoming events which required RSVP so I created a LINK through Dreamweaver and then viewed it in the browser...then from the FILE menu - chose "mail contents of this page"
The idea was to mail a link which I later added graphics and "copy" but people remarked that the message was cluttered with these symbols-��
Does anyone know what these are caused from?

It's an incompability between mail and some versions of outlook. I found this extremely frustrating when using mail as my business email client. Constantly appearing to be asking questions in your emails to clients can garner some interesting reactions.
You can do a few things.
The easiest is to switch to writing emails in plain text.
Slightly more complicated is to run a short script on the console and hope that works (it didn't for me)
And finally - after much mucking about - the best solution I've found for this problem is here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121814&tstart=75
PowerBookG4, Black MacBook, 20" cinema display Mac OS X (10.4.10) 4G iPod 40GB

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