Carriage returns shown as characters in PDF

I have three servers with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional loaded. Users run some locally developed apps on these, and the apps create PDF's from the data that is input by the end user.
On one of these servers, the PDF that is created has an odd character (a small square) whereever carriage returns were used. The other two servers generate the PDF's correctly from these apps.
What do I need to look at to correct this problem?
Thank you,
Logan Burt

Apologies for the late reply,
I have checked it from the SAPGUI but I am getting the same results, so the attachments do not corrupted during upload.
I am not sure but is it possible that the language has not been installed on the server or is not recognized by Adobe ? because how I see it is not a corrupted file but just that the particular language is not supported, suggestions please.
Thanks.

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