Language issues in SQL*Plus 8.1.7 for win 2000

Hi,
I installed Oracle Client 8.1.7 /Win 2000 release.
When I use SQL*Plus 8.1.7, I can not type nor read Arabic characters. My Win 2000 has all the Arabic components. And I am using AR8ISO8859P6 character set on both DB and Registry edit.
I feel like it is a bug in SQL*Plus 8.1.7 on win 2000.
Did anyone face such problem?? Do anyone have a solution?
(Note: When I type Arabic characters it is displayed as Latin characters. When I store them in DB and retrieve them from an other application they are retrieved correclty)
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Hi
I had similar problem with Cyrillic characters on previous version of Oracle on Windows NT 4.0. We could not find good solution for them. Only solution we found was to write sql commands in notepad and send it in SQL*Plus with copy and paste.
Regards
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