Polish characters displayed as #

Hi friends,
We have a portal application, where we enter polish characters in a Text editor. These are stored in a table in R3 (ECC 6.0 - Unicode environment). In the table, the polish characters are shown as rectangular boxes and are displayed as # in the portal. Could anyone please help to resolve this problem?
Thanks,
Sharmila

Hi Michael,
The Text Editor in Portal is Unicode compliant. The problem arises when it comes to R3. Also, we found that the issue is with the code page only. A code page conversion is required for polish characters. We are still working on this.
Thanks,
Sharmila

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