Special character showing as upside down question mark on oracle report

We have an oracle report which selects data from a database table. Report shows a name field and names with a special character is showing as upside down question mark.
The name is Simon John ễễ BaileyŠğčẫ
But when we run the oracle report the name is showed with 6 upside down question marks
I am not sure if these characters are unicode? (beyond western european character set)
Oracle database: 11.2.0.1 with nls_characterset = AL32UTF8
Oracle Reports Server: 10.1.2.3.0 with the following locale settings:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Any ideas, suggesstions, is this font related issue?
Thanks for your help.

You mean the operating system where the Oracle reports server resides?

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