Printing Arabic Characters

Is it possible to print arabic and English numbers in the same
report (Eg. Passport No. H4523456) . Some how it is not printing
properly. (If it is only number without any alphabet , changing
the direction displays the number in arabic correctly.)
Database is storing the characters in English.
Thanks.
Datebase Character Set : AR8ISO8859P6
NLS_LANG : AR8MSWIN1256

Hello,
It is possible, but set NLS_LANG=UTF8
which is UNICODE, however if your database is not in Unicode you are not able to display both i.e. English and Arabic, why?
Unicode has a representation for each language character and has a position, no matter what language, Japanese, Chinese.
Contact Oracle Support, they can give you an answer to your request.
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Symptom
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Korean **********************************
KP                      KPBATANG, KPDODUM, KPGULIM
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