Asian Characters in strange places

Hi,
I have recently noticed that in some programs I am getting asian characters in strange places on my intel mac (see model below). For example, I played a DVD the other day and the name of the movie in the title bar was in an asian font. I have also noticed this in the help viewer of realplayer in both the title bar and all throughout the help contents pages.
Am I missing a font or is this some sort of bug?
Thanks,
Ben

I have recently noticed that in some programs I am
getting asian characters in strange places on my
intel mac (see model below).
You may have a font substitution problem. If you want to send a screenshot, I could try to verify the exact kind of characters which are appearing. Click on my name for the address.

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