Skype Showing Special Characters as Boxes []

Just less than an hour ago, I had a problem with some virus-extensions. I did necessary uninstallments and downloaded Adwere to make sure the extensions are gone for good. Once I've done so, Adwere uninstalled many different files. So far, no problem with anything in Skype. Except my name and other special characters.
Like, now some Japanese/Chinese/Korean ETC. characters are showing as boxes. What bothers me the most is my name. It used to be (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ but now it shows like this: http://puu.sh/cndAy/f9f6c721dc.png . I'd like to keep the same font, Tahoma (8 points) because it has been the same always and my name and other characters in my friends' names ETC. where always shown. So any solution instead of changing fonts/installing fonts is appreciated because I'm so used to Tahoma's look on the many years I used Skype and don't want any change.

You're right that whitespace doesn't show as squares anymore (I think they did in the past), but everything else seems OK.
Why don't you try something like this and prove for yourself:
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!"#$%&''()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~€‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹ŒŽ‘’“”•–—˜™š›œžŸ ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ' from dualRegards,
K.

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