Cant see hebrew on the unix os

Question

hi!
when i am spooling a file on unix and selecting data from a table contains hebrew charecter's data, i get a file full of ??????????? instead of hebrew.
spool try.txt
select 'name - ' || NAME
from names_tb
spool off;
brings out:
name - ????? ????
name - ???? ????????
when i sending the file to the windows os it still with ????????? instead of hebrew.
the thing is that i do have hebrew on the unix server (i can see hebrew, just not from the db).
does any one have a clue what i need to install / change in the server/db in order to see hebrew from the db?

Answer 1

hi, that solved our problem, thanks.
now, we have another problem, I do not know if this is the right place to ask, but i will try:
We moved a critical part of our system (coded in java) to unix from windows.
while running, for some results the processes insert messages to the db (oracle 10g on the same machine). The error message are being taken from a resource file
(txt which contains CODE=message). the error message are in hebrew, but they are being inserted as ??????????? ??????? insted of hebrew to the db.
some facts:
1) We discovered that hebrew that coded directly in the java src "System.out.println("some hebrew words")" is being shoed as ??????????? on our unix too, but
when we insert it to the db we can see it well.
2) When we take the hebrew from the resource file (we can see it well in the unix) we cant understand it in the db.