BI Publisher text file gettin unexpected DOS characters

We just implemented R12 and seem to be getting unexpected DOS characters added to the end of each line : “^M” when we run a report using an etext template. Has anyone run into this?

check the xmlp version you are in, and try to upgrade it to latest for R12 .
unexpected DOS characters, appears only when the font/character is not understood.
if this was due to upgrade then, better get the latest XMLp for r12 patched.

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