Loaded Symbolic character from interface change into question mark (?) char

Question

what type of variable that could store SYMBOLIC character such as
® (registered), µM (Micro)?
i create DFF (with CHAR format type) that suppose to store detail
information that has any symbolic character.
I create my data that have symbol character (the symbol display perfectly on
my Microsoft Excell 2007 and Notepad++).
Than save it as .csv, and import into interface table.
after successfully imported, all symbolic character (like above) turn into
"?" character
on forms.
does oracle e-business suite support using symbolic character on DFF?
or there must be someway to turn my .csv into readable data for symbolic
character?
please help.

Answer 1

Hi Sarah,
There are some special characters hard coded in OIM as # character. In my case, I made a workaround and it is working for '#' character:
1-If through “group to approver member mapping” recon we get a group that doesn’t exist in OIM, search if that group contains “#” sign.
2-If yes, then convert that group name to some temporary name which doesn’t contain # sign and create the group.
2.1-If not, follow the normal process.
3-Just after it is created, use a sql query to update the group name to the original name.
I wrote a code for implementing this and test is working fine with add, updates, delete.
My suggestion is: Open a SR with Oracle and ask them about this special character (?). If it is hard coded or not.
If it is you can create something like my idea above, but related of your password not group names.
If not , if it is just enable special characters , please follow this steps: http://cn.forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9670344
I really hope this helps.
Thiago L Guimaraes