Arabic data shows Invalid characters

Hi,
Arabic data is stored in 9i database having US7ASCII character set. Our vendor application is displaying data in arabic correctly but when we try to query data then we are getting characters like
mMml aaEa_JQfdmGJ
Regards
Ahmer

I have tried to display data in ASP, SQLPLUS, SQL Developer & SQL Navigator. All of them are showing invalid except SQL Developer which is showing boxes.
I am only querying the data that is already present in database and vendor's application displaying correctly.
I tried with changed NLS_LANG but it did'nt works.
When I ask the application vendor, they replied me:
"Arabic Data can be viewed in Multibyte telnet clients like Putty, if UTF-8 text encoding is enabled, both in the client and Oracle. The character encoding should be set to UTF-8 only during download of data and then this can be viewed in the telnet client.
Normal single byte telnet clients cannot encode the same, and the arabic data will be shown as Junk characters. Else, the same can be spooled into a text file, opened in MS-Word with the character encoding set as UTF-8 format."
I have to generate report for wondows client.
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