Report showing garbled text

Hi,
When I take a report on one particular machine at my client site, the report is shown is scrambled text.(non english, weird fonts).
The same machine shows the issue once a while.
However the same report works fine on all other machines.
Any hints??
Thanks
Arun

Is this report takes longer time to run as compare to other reports? The machine in question, has the same hardware/software configuration as other machines? How much ram that machine has?
The report which comes up with junk characters, copy that pdf from the report server directory (do not use save as option from the pdf viewer, copy it from the server) and open it in other system and see if opens up correctly.

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