Special Characters shown as question marks

Hi everyone.
I have an iPhone 4 since December 2010 but im having a problem, everytime i recieve or send a text message with special characters such as:
ñ á é ç ó etc... i recieve this characters with question mark (?) i called IUSACELL which is my carrier here in México and the told me that this is an iPhone problem because they ran somes test with some iPhones they have there and everything went fine. This is quite annoying.
The problem showed up when i had iOS 4.3.5, now i'm iOS 5 Beta 5 and is still there!!
Regards.
Some images here.
The word is "Llegué"
The word is "Quedé"
The word is "Años"
The word is "Quién"
PS. Sorry for my bad english

Sounds that you have a problem with the font that is used to display those characters.<br />
You can try some different default fonts (e.g. Arial, Verdana, Tahoma) to see if you can identify the not working font.<br />
You will have to reinstall or refresh that font.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

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