I use entourage and have sent 1000's of emails and for the first time I had this (attached)message appear when I hit send, any ideas why now?

Have you recently upgraded to Panther? Have you upgraded Entourage just now? Has anything else just changed on your Mac?

I did an Office (Entourage) update a couple of weeks ago but have sent/received heap of emails since then, nothing else has changed.

well unicode is a good thing ... if their mail client doesn't support it they'll just get weird characters (or blocks) where you have things like an umlaut.

doesn't look like there was any updates like that in SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;883951

It's been awhile since this first email, but I just went to reply to another email and the "unicode" thing came up again anyone got any ideas on how to change this or should I just go ahead and send it and not worry?

Thanks.

Unless your sending it to a mailing list or newsgroup go for it (if you are you'll probably end up pissing off a bunch of crusty old dudes running OS/2 trying to check their mail through pine or something).

Are you sending any 'non-standard' characters like cyrrilic or greek (Д,Й,ό etc.)?

I'm not sending anything unusual just "normal" emails this is only the 2nd time this has happened and they are when I reply to emails and just these 2 people do they send their emails in a different way and is that why I get the messages?

Ta

In that case the unicode characters are probably in the original message. Does it happen if you don't quote what they sent? In any case if they're sending emails in unicode it's probably safe to assume they can read them as well.

You're right when I reply and delete all the text they sent it doesn't give me the message.

Thanks for your help.