Spanish Question Marks and Dollar signs

Every time one of my friends (using a Razr on ATT) sends me a sms with a dollar sign it shows up as an upside down question mark.
My settings are for English, US (as delivered by ATT).
What's up with that? Anyone else seeing this?

I haven't had that specific problem, but when I send an n with the (nyay?) Spanish accent mark, it shows up weird on some of my friends' non-iPhones.

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