Load special characters in oracle by using informatica

Hi All, I'm trying to load data from flat file to oracle databse table using Informatica power center 9.1.0 and I have some special characters in source file. Data are loaded sucessfully without any errors but these special characters are loaded different way like 1) Planner Ã¢â‚¬â€œ loaded as Planner ��2) HÃƒÂ¡irÃƒÂ©ch loaded as Hair��ch While same flatfile loaded into another flatfile,data loaded correctly including special characters.So,I am unable to understand problem with database or informatica. SourceFlat File - comma ',' delimtedCode page is defined as UTF-8 encoding of Unicode Relational connectionI have tried by changing the code page while creating relational connection in Informatica to UTF-8, ISO 8859-1 Western European, MS Windows Latin 1 etc.,didn't work. InformaticaIntegration Service and Repo code page is defined as UTF8Data movement code page of Integration server was set to UNICODE TargetOracle databaseNLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET: AL16UTF16NLS_CHARACTERSET: AL32UTF8 ThanksSai

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