German Characters

I am trying to import some data using the data load, load text data function.
This data contains german characters like umlauts. When they have been imported, they get corrupted and display as squares.
What do I need to do to correct this. I tried changing the apex language to german in the shared components, but it still corrupted.
Cheers
Gus

Are you using the
Home>Utilities>Data Load/Unload>Load>Load Data
from the apex administration?
Did you try to use File Character Set Western European ISO-8859-1 ?
That works.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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