The behaviour of encoding attachments in Mail.app

I used to compose plain text mails.
If I attach a file, for example:
blabla1<file>blabla2
Seems that Mail.app will encode them separately, blabla1, file and blabla2 will be encoded as 3 mime parts.
So in many mail clients (maybe including Outlook), my receipt will see the mail content blabla1, and 2 attachments: file and blabla2(this is a .txt file)
Even if I drag the file to the end of the text, in some mail client they will still see 2 attachment files.
How can I make Mail.app not to split the text? I just want my attachment at the end of the mail.

OK, I've found the solution. In the attach file dialog there's a check box to use Windows compatible attachment files, check it and it's done

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