Convertion of Danish characters in UTF8

Hello everybody,
I am facing a strange situation on my project.
We are not able to convert a special/national Danish character into UTF (e.g. convert “JordbÃ¿Å r” to “Jordbær JordbÿŠr”).
I am using the built-in function CONVERT and an Oracle 9.2 database.
Do you have any idea how can I solve this?
Thanks,
Ionut

Hi Ionut,
How do you tell it doesn't work?
In my system I have plenty of Jordbær:
SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter='NLS_CHARACTERSET';
PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
SQL> select 'Jordbær', convert('Jordbær', 'WE8MSWIN1252', 'UTF8') from dual;
'JORDBæ CONVERT
Jordbær Jordb+r
SQL>@Ravi Kumar, you reversed the arguments, I think.
Regards
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