MS-WORD Ellipses in JavaMail

hi,
i'm using JavaMail API to send emails. i prepare my messages in a MS-WORD file (using MS-WORD 2000). the problem is when i have three "dots" like "..." in MS-WORD it converts them to ellipses and so i get "?" as those "..." when i view the email in the email account

is there a solution? well i have a solution for that tho. i put "..." as ". . ." to fool the MS-WORD and it works

but is there a way to identify these ellipses?
regards
maulin

I suppose you could use a hex editor to figure out what codes Word is inserting and do a replace operation on the message string. I really hate those MS Word tricks with punctuation, they don't get properly replaced with ASCII when you do a save as text or save as HTML.