Smartforms-Junk Characters being printed with text

Hi,

I have two issues regarding smartforms

1.Whenever I add any text in the smartform in the text editor ,for example, "test",

the print preview shows as above, BUT in the printout it comes as #test#.

2.Similarly, when I use READ_TEXT function module to get any text from the transaction, for example, AT&T, the output in the preview and printout comes as (AT<(>&<)>T.

Can any one tell me how to avoid this junk data .

Regards

Rasheed