Thunderbird keeps adding extra unwanted characters into messages - how can I stop or prevent this.

Thunderbird keeps putting extra unwanted characters into emails, eg here’s the articleÂ. These extra characters roughly coincide with punctuation marks.
First raised this a couple of weeks back but so far no-one has come back.

You're getting these in messages while you're composing? This issue usually comes up with ''incoming'' mail and is also often seen in browsers. They can be connected with users who use non-standard fonts such as wingdings in their email.
None of the things you say you have tried are likely to affect it. Gnospen is thinking of the '''View|Character Encoding''' setting; mine is set to Unicode and I don't understand why anyone would choose one of the regional variants when Unicode is available.
You could look at '''[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Menu_differences_in_Windows,_Linux,_and_Mac Tools|Options]'''|Display|Formatting→Advanced and check if you have selected mainstream fonts for your email contents.

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