Drawing chess diagrams Help

I use to draw “chess drawings” (excuse the repetition) to illustrate my downlow chess articles.

I used Dragram Transfer v. 3.01 and it went OK. But lately I changed my MB and now Diagram Transfer uses a variety of curious letters to represent the pìeces in lieu of the usual standard figures used in chess books.

This is an example of what it shows now:

1222222223
Ç + + + +5
Æ+ + + + 5
Å + + + +5
Ä+ + + + 5
à + + + +5
Â+ + + + 5
Á + + + +5
À+ + + + 5
6ÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ8

Does any of you friends have an idea of how to correct this issue?

Is there a drawing (chess diagrams) program you can recommend (other than Diagram Transfer)?

Thanks in advance

Have you tried reinstalling Dragram Transfer?
It sounds like it might be a font-related issue. 
You can use just about any GUI (Winboard, Scid vs. PC, Tarrasch, Arena, etc.) to display the position, and then, with a varity of methods, transfer that position to your article.  For example, you can use Snipping Tool (free with Windows) and create an image of just the board.
Several GUIs (Winboard, for example) have a feature installed that will automatically make an image of the board, with just a mouse-click or keystroke.
Once you have an image of the board, it's a simple matter to insert it or cut and paste it into your article.

Thanks EdCollins

I re downloaded Diag Transfer and now it works  OK. .

Why ? Guess only Heavens know…

But if you like twisting your mind, this might have happened

I had Diagram loaded with Win XP Standard

I decided to change my mother board, but since I am not any more youngster to fool round with small screws, and the like, I sent the PC to a technician.

I made it clear to him that I would reload my programs myself and (important) I wanted XP standard and not WinXP Professional

He did the contrary. Loaded XP Prof and “backcopied” my programs (Win XP Std), included DiagTransfer

It might be that Diagr installed with XP Prof does not work with WX Standard

You know. . . in real life Windows (and Microsoft) “ain´t no saints”-

My regards