Problem with Arabic characters

Hi:
I don't know if this is the correct place to post the question, but here it goes...
I have an SQL 2005 database, connected via a Linked Server to an Oracle Database.
I have a table in SQL that contains arabic characters, and I need to insert it into an Oracle table.
These characters appear as "????" after being inserted in the oracle table.
I guess I hace some collation/characterset problem, but cannot finf the solution.
The column where the arabic characyers are saved in SQL is defined as:
     [Remarks] [nvarchar](1000) NULL,
And default SQL server collation is: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
When I do a select on this table, it can see arabic correctly.
ORACLE NLS CONFIGURATION IS:
PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET AR8MSWIN1256
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 11.1.0.6.0
The sql sentence in SQL server that moves the data to oracle is:
INSERT INTO openquery(Oracle_DB, 'select Ticket_NO,Remarks from webportal.webcc_escal_det')
     (Ticket_NO,Remarks )
     SELECT Ticket_NO, Remarks
     FROM Details(nolock)
Thanks in advance!!
Mariana

I think first you should check your character set
SELECT * FROM NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS where parameter = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET'
For oracle to display correctly, you need to change your character set that caters to Arabic

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