Language Support in Forms and Reports 6i Patch 11

I have set up my NLS_LANG to ARABIC_UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.AR8MSWIN1256 in order to display arabic characters on my forms and reports. Prior to this, ive reinstalled my oracle to add the arabic language...
The settings worked in forms6i but when i run a report,
the characters displayed are all inverted question mark..
Can someone help me out...Thanks!

What destype and desformat are used to run your report?

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The note 125767.1 says (Step 5) to not follow the ReadMe as it may contain errors but instead the doc. relnotef_p19.pdf. But this doc. also says to set ORACLE_HOME to iAS_HOME/6iserver if we are going to apply the patch on top of iAS. My Pb is that I can find developer bin in both 8.0.6 and iAS homes (6iserver) and with exact same version "6.0.8.21.2". The ORACLE_HOME is set by default to 8.0.6 and I guess that it should remain as you said but wants to have confirmation.
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Is there any tool Available in oracle 9i forms and reports to change the language
(suppose need a change from english to arabic)?

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