DB Changed to UTF-8. Now parameter form prompts display in font "symbol"

We are in the process of updating a vendor developed application.
The database character set changed from WE8ISO8859P1 to AL32UTF8.
The vendor supplied reports work fine but our in house developed reports now have an issue with the parameter form font. The parameter font for the prompts is defaulting to "symbol".
This happens even on forms where we have not specified a paper parameter form and
let Oracle generate a default one.
Any ideas on what we need to set to get the parameter form prompts to appear as Courier?
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
Report Builder 10.1.2.3.0
Reports are run from a form. For example:
http://XXX.XXXXX.CA:7777/reports/rwservlet?server=rep_XXX3&envid=XXX8&report=TESTREPORT&destype=CACHE&desformat=PDF&paramform=YES&userid=&recursive_load=no

Hello,
For your problem related the Font Symbol, apply the solution described in the document :
Oracle® Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)
B14048-02
18 Implementing Globalization and Bidirectional Support
Repairing Garbled Fonts When Using the WE8ISO8859P15 Character Set
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_17/bi.1012/b14048/pbr_nls.htm#CBJCBCFG
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