Export to Excel encoding problem

I am using SQL Developer 1.1 Patch 1 (1.1.1.25) on Windows 2000 with Oracle 10g (on Linux).
The database has NLS_CHARACTERSET EL8ISO8859P7
(to support Greek characters)
Although in SQL Developer the greek characters are displayed correctly in the Results and Script Output panes, when I export the results to Excel, the Greek characters are displayed as squares and other symbols:
Example:
The text: ΣΤΕΓΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΔΑΝΕΙΑ
appears in Excel as: £¤£¤
(The version of the Excel I use is Microsoft Excel 2000)
I have tried many different encodings (from Tools > Preferences > Environment > Encoding) such as cp1253, ISO-8959-7, utf-8, utf-16 but the result is always the same.
The export as CSV has no problem with the greek characters.
I also noticed that the changes to the encoding in Export Data > Export File Chooser seem to be lost (if I change it and then reselect Browse... to check it, the default from preferences is shown again).
I also have the problem mentioned in another post, that when I export data to clipboard and do paste to Excel, a value such as java.io.BufferedOutputStream@8ff9a7 is only pasted.

Hi!
I am somewhat confused as to "the next release". I am exporting to excel from a portlet in a portal page and during the export process, characters that look like boxes are displayed in the title bar on the message dialog box that pops up. For me this is just a cosmetic porblem since all of my data exports exactly as it should, but the export process does not look clean when the little boxes are displayed. So I am interested in the release you are referencing and when it will be available. I am using Portal Reports Oracle 10g on Unix.

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