Mail showing letters as an A in a box

Some, not all, of my emails are showing in mail as a capital A in a box. I can copy the AAAAAAA, paste elsewhere (in word on the same computer) and it shows the complete proper letters but I can't seem to show them in mail. Very annoying when you receive as much email as I do. Could I be missing fonts in mail? I just purchased this Mac a few weeks ago.
Update: I figured out it's not displaying Arial fonts in the email display section of mail - it is, however, displaying the message properly in the preview panel on the left.

Guys, I had the same problem and just got off the phone with AppleCare. They wer enoit sure what the bug was, but corrected it by going into mail preferneces, changing the message font to ANYTHING. Then quit mail. Go back into mail, change the message font back to whatever it was, quit mail. Get back in a viola.
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