Apostrophes are replaced by question marks in output string?

Hi Guys
I think this is an encoding problem but I cannot find it in the forum archives. My apostrophes are being replaced by question marks on my jsp output?
Any idea why and how to get them back to apostrophes
Cheers, ADC

Guys, the 3rd party product has no trouble at all
showing the apostrophes from the self-same database
that I get question marks from.
This MUST be an encoding issue, so anyone that knows
about encoding and changing it please could you
suggest something. You can take for granted that one
way or another the character in the database IS an
apostrophe as verified by viewing it via the 3rd party
product we have.You said...
In the SQL database view they come out as squares
Were you referring to the normal applications that are available for viewing data for the database (like SQL*Plus or Enterprise Manager?)
If yes, then if it was me then I would presume it was not an apostrophe and that the third party tool was mapping the real character to an apostrophe. A 'square' indicates an unusual character in viewers.
Are you using EBCDIC? Unless EBCDIC is involved apostrophe has the same value in most if not all character sets because ANSI forms the lower range for most character sets. I know for example that Korean, Japanese and Chinese character sets use ANSI, as does unicode (with padded zeros for the wider ranges.)

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