0CUSTOMER Special Characters Error in Load

Hi Experts,
I am loading Customer Master data from R/3 into BW via 0CUSTOMER_ATTR extractor. Some user-entered fields in R/3 such as NAME, NAME1, STREET etc have some special characters - which look like a square.
This data used to come over into BW w/o errors. Now I have added some date fields to the extract eg CREATED_ON. All records that have the special characters now show-up incorrectly; as in ALL fields after the special characters have shifted to the left. So a few characters from CREATED_BY have spilled into CREATED_ON, Telephone Ext has spilled into Telephone Num and so on.
This is how the data is coming into the PSA from R/3. So I can't even check for special characters in the trans routine. ( The data is already bad in the PSA).I checked RSA3. there is no such spillage on the R/3 side. The spilling of data is happening between R/3 and BW.
Any Idea whats going on here and how to fix this?
thanks,
Kartik.

I think you have to check infoobject length in BI and the order of the infoobjects in the infosource compared to extractor fields.Any incosistency here may cause the spillage of data.
The new fields created in R/3 especially with varying lengths of data seems to be causing the trouble..

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