CR displays unicode fonts as squares

Hi
I am deploying a report with chinese chars and its using unicode fonts. However the report does not display it corectly and it shows the lables as squares.
Development tool. VS2005 +CR and deployed on Win2008 IIS7
Thanks for any help.
Regds
Jay

Hi Don
I and Jay are facing this issue together. We had already installed the Arial Unicode font and are using those fonts in CR. Its working in the UAT server but in the live server its' not working.
I double check that the font is already installed in the live server. Only difference I can spot is in Live server the actual Windows directory is called SIOUXSIE althought there is still a Windows directory. I have installed the Unicode font in both directories but still having this problem.
Hope you can help !!

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