Inserting upside down question marks/Inverted Question marks into database

Hi All,
When I am inserting any special character into database it is
inserted as upside down question marks/Inverted Question marks.
When I am trying to display the same string throgh the application
the special characters are displaying as small square box.
NLS Parameters are as follows:-
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 9.2.0.4.0
can any body help in this?
Thanks in advance.

What are any "special character" and how do you insert them?
Have you verified what is stored in the db, e.g. with select string, dump(string,1016) from table ...
What character set (or locale) does the app/os use, and is NLS_LANG set accordingly?
The square box often means that the font used does not have the proper glyph to represent (display) a character. In your case this may be a consequence of improperly storing or retrieving character data.

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