Insert or read Arabic characters

Hi,
I am using Oracle 10g 10.2 database and Oracle forms 6i.
NLS_LANG parameter is AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
It is possible to insert or read both arabic and English characters to the database using forms6i.
Please give me a solution.
Thanks and Regards,
Ansaf.

Hi
Pls SET the NLS_LANG Parameter of ur RegEdit to ...
AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8MSWIN1256This allows u both Arabic & English in the same Application
Pls note u have about 2 or 3 NLS_LANG in the same developer folder in ur regedit pls use
Edit>find >NLS_LANG
and replace the existing one with the above ....
Hope this help...
Regards,
Amatu Allah.

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If it is set to AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8, I get characters like this:
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You need to use the correct and the same character encoding (charset) thorough the complete process.
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Hi,
I need to run some Forms fmb files that contain Arabic characters through Oracle's forms to xml converter (frmf2xml.bat). The XML that is generated by the utility contains strings such as "Ø±Ù‚Ù… Ø§Ù„Ù…ÙˆØ¸Ù�" instead of the Arabic characters I was expecting.
The XML output by frmf2xml.bat is encoded as UTF-8.
My NLS_LANG is set to AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. The characters display fine in Forms Builder.
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end;

thanks srini, i am using microsoft excel,
i think it is a character conversion issue, i had tested by sending the below message without charset=AL32UTF8 and arabic was displayed as junk, after giving the value of charset its working.
begin
utl_mail.send(
sender => '[email protected]',
recipients => '[email protected]',
subject => 'Subject',
message => 'إلاق فرع (ح',
mime_type => 'text; charset=AL32UTF8');
end;I think in the code i am not passing charset value correctly, can you kindly tell me where i can give the charset in the below code
procedure test   is
        smtp    UTL_SMTP.connection;
        reply   UTL_SMTP.reply;
                      csvContent      clob;---added
        procedure W( line varchar2 default null ) is
        begin
                UTL_SMTP.write_data(
                        smtp,
                        line || utl_tcp.CRLF
        end;
begin
        smtp := UTL_SMTP.open_connection('test.domain.com',25);
        --// IMPORTANT: specify the hostname of the plaform sending the mail!
        UTL_SMTP.helo( smtp,'test.domain.com');
        UTL_SMTP.mail( smtp,'[email protected]' );
       UTL_SMTP.rcpt( smtp,'[email protected]' );
        UTL_SMTP.open_data( smtp );
        --// mail header
        W( 'MIME-Version: 1.0' );
        W( 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C87DCB.CD85F300"');
        W( 'Subject: test' );
        W( 'From: test' );
        --// mail text body
        W();
        W( '------_=_NextPart_001_01C87DCB.CD85F300' );
        W( 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit' );
        W( 'Content-Type: text/plain' );
         W( 'Charset: AL32UTF8' );
         W();
        W( 'Dear All' );
        W();
        W( 'test' );
        W();
        --// mail attachment
        W();
        W( '------_=_NextPart_001_01C87DCB.CD85F300' );
        W( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.csv"' );
        W( 'Content-Type: text/plain' );
        W( 'Charset: AL32UTF8' );
        W();
        W( 'EMPNO'||','||'ENAME       );
        for c in( SELECT EMPNO,ENAME FROM EMPLOYEES ) loop
                W( c.EMPNO||','||c.ENAME );
        end loop;
        W( '------_=_NextPart_001_01C87DCB.CD85F300' );
        UTL_SMTP.close_data( smtp );
        UTL_SMTP.quit( smtp );
end;

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